CT Scans Detect Early Lung Cancers: Study
Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer — more deadly than breast, prostate, cervical and colon cancers combined. Of the 173,000 people who are newly diagnosed with lung cancer each year, a staggering 95 percent will eventually die from it.
Early screening tests for other cancers — such as mammography and colonoscopy — can find tumors in their early and more treatable stages. For lung cancers, however, no proven screening test exists. But researchers think they may have found one.
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