Screening Process for Lung Cancer

A new study has just been completed that links screening smokers lungs with a CT scan can increase the survival rate of lung cancer, the world’s number one cause of death. Much as women receive yearly or semi yearly mammograms smokers received CT scans. This study had no comparison group, which is the main cause of controversy, but the screened smokers who developed a tumor which was promptly removed showed an estimated 10-year survival rate of 92 percent, which is much higher then the average. Currently only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed in Step 1. This screening process could greatly increase that percentage.

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