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Article: Landmark Study Involving United Steelworkers Reveals That Lung Cancer 10-Year Survival Dramatically Improves With Annual CT Screening and Prompt Treatment.
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- October 31, 2006
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NEW YORK -- News From USW: Lung cancer can be detected at its very earliest stage in 85 percent of patients using annual low-dose CT screening, and, when followed by prompt surgical removal, the 10-year survival rate is 92 percent. These results, to be reported in the October 26 New England Journal of Medicine, would dramatically decrease the number of deaths from lung cancer - the number one cause of cancer deaths among both men and women in the U.S.
The study is the fruit of an international collaboration among 38 institutions in 7 countries, the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project (I-ELCAP). The United Steelworkers (USW) is one of these institutions ...