Landmark Study Involving United Steelworkers
October 31st, 2006
Lung cancer can be detected at its very earliest stage in 85 percent of patients using annual low-dose CT screening, and, when followed by prompt surgical removal, the 10-year survival rate is 92 percent. These results, to be reported in the October 26 New England Journal of Medicine, would dramatically decrease the number of deaths from lung cancer - the number one cause of cancer deaths among both men and women in the U.S.