When It Comes to Lung Cancer, She Doesn’t Believe in Waiting
Even people who think she’s wrong hope she turns out to be right.
Since 1999, Dr. Claudia I. Henschke, a soft-spoken professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, has been waging a relentless campaign. She has been trying to convince the medical establishment that smokers and former smokers should be offered routine CT scans to detect lung cancer when tumors are still small enough to be cured. By her estimate, the scans could prevent 80 percent of the 160,000 deaths a year from lung cancer in the United States.
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At 6:51 am on October 10th, 2007 bebe said:
i completely agree with her.
aye the simple answer is to stop smoking. but smoking shouldnt be a death sentance and they should definelely be checked.
someone i loce dearly is dying of stage four lung cancer.
and it angers me so much that the doctors did not pick it sooner