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It would be wonderful to catch more lung cancers in very early stages, and CT scanning can do that. But there are downsides to using this highly-sensitive test - it can catch too many things that turn out NOT to be cancer.
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It would be wonderful to catch more lung cancers in very early stages, and CT scanning can do that. But there are downsides to using this highly-sensitive test - it can catch too many things that turn out NOT to be cancer.
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CT screening for lung cancer
HOST READS: LUNG CANCER IS OFTEN NOT DIAGNOSED UNTIL TOO LATE. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE?S A NEW TYPE OF CT SCAN THAT CAN DETECT CANCER EARLIER. BUT IT?S NOT FOR EVERYONE. HERE IS NATIONALLY SYNDICATED HEALTH COLUMNIST AND HEALTH TALK LIVE! RADIO HOST JUDY FOREMAN.
JUDY READS:
A major study of more than 30,000 former and current smokers that was published last fall in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that screening can catch lung cancers very early, at Stage I. Catching cancer this early was linked to a projected 88 percent 10-year survival rate if patients were treated promptly with surgery.
This projection is dramatically better than the usual survival rates for lung cancer. Since the study had no control group, it can?t cannot answer definitively the question of whether screening reduces deaths from lung cancer....
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