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Article: Detailed CT scans can improve odds of surviving lung cancer.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2006
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Byline: Nancy McVicar
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Long-time smokers who get a CT scan once a year, like women who go for a mammogram, can greatly increase their odds of surviving lung cancer _ to upwards of 90 percent _ for what is now the deadliest cancer in both men and women, killing 164,000 in this country every year, new research shows.
An 11-year international study published in Wednesday's New England Journal of Medicine involving more than 31,500 people screened smokers and others at high risk by taking CT scans of their lungs. Those whose tumors were caught early had a 10-year-survival rate of 88 to 92 percent, compared with only 5 percent survival ...