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Article: Smokers' lung cancer risk identified in CT screening study.
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- December 26, 2004
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2004 DEC 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For the first time, researchers can predict the lung cancer risk for social smokers as well as habitual smokers.
Data presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) showed that a social smoker age 50 or older has a risk for developing lung cancer similar to that of a smoker under age 50 who smoked three packs a day for 20 years.
Claudia I. Henschke, PhD, MD, is the principal investigator of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project (I-ELCAP), the largest study ever undertaken on whether annual screening by computed tomography (CT) can prevent deaths from lung cancer. ...