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Article: Screening for lung cancer is not always recommended.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2005
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Byline: Laura Beil
DALLAS _ Peter Jennings' death from lung cancer this week was sobering, not just because the anchorman always looked dapper and healthy on camera, but because he fell with astonishing speed _ just four months after announcing his diagnosis.
Jennings smoked. His death has left many of the nation's 48 million former smokers asking apparently simple questions: Should they be screened? Why don't doctors perform routine checks for lung cancer, just as they do for prostate or breast cancer?
As with many issues in oncology, a question may seem simple, but the answer becomes mired in the uncertainties of medicine, statistics, and the ...