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Article: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: Lung cancer screening gets an edge
- Article from:
- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- October 30, 2006
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Results of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program,
recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest
that CT imaging to screen for lung cancer may save lives. Nearly
32,000 adults over age 40 and at increased risk of lung cancer due to
tobacco or occupational exposures were enrolled. A total of 484 lung
cancer diagnoses were made, and the 10-year survival following
treatment was over 80 percent. Ordinarily, lung cancer survival at 10
years is little over 5 percent. This sounds very good. An effective
lung cancer screening program would be very welcome indeed. Lung
cancer is the most lethal of all cancers in the United States,
claiming over 150,000 lives a year. ...