Providers at the Salt Lake City, Utah-based institution have already treated dozens of patients with the condition across its 24 hospitals.

The National Lung Cancer Roundtable made the call to action last week to coincide with the start of Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

As of Thursday, Nov. 7, more than 2,050 individuals had been stricken by electronic cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) in 49 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

University of Pennsylvania scientists are piloting the use of special imaging markers to track the movement of CAR T cells within the body. 
 

E-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury has already stricken more than 1,600 individuals across the country, killing 34. 

“It is evident from today’s report that these lung injuries are disproportionately affecting young people,” said Director Robert Redfield, MD. 

18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT imaging can help predict outcomes of patients who have been newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma, according to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

Those results have been proven true regardless of tumor type, size or grade of cancer, Brigham and Women's researchers found.