Pleural Disorders - Screening and Prevention - Screening and Prevention

Learn about the preventive strategies your doctor may recommend.

• Treating conditions that increase the risk of pleural disorders
• Quitting smoking. Visit Smoking and Your Heart and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Your Guide to a Healthy Heart. For free help quitting smoking, you may call the National Cancer Institute’s Smoking Quitline at 1-877-44U-QUIT (1-877-448-7848).
• Quitting or avoiding illegal drugs, such as marijuana

• Diagnosis will explain tests and procedures that your doctor may use to diagnose pleural disorders.
• Life After will discuss what your doctor may recommend to prevent your pleural disorder from recurring, getting worse, or causing complications.
• Research for Your Health will explain how we are using current research and advancing research to prevent pleural disorders.
• Participate in NHLBI Clinical Trials will discuss our open and enrolling clinical studies that are investigating prevention strategies for pleural disorders.