PROPOSED STUDY WOULD LOOK AT LUNG CANCER IN OLDER NAVY VETERANS
March 17th, 2010
Omaha Nebraska Senator Bob Krist is proposing the state spend approximately $650,000 to research a test that analyzes sputum to inexpensively screen for lung cancer. Krist’s bill, LB987, would primarily use funds from a tobacco settlement for the study. Krist became more actively interested in early lung cancer detection when his father was diagnosed with lung cancer. His father died from the asbestos related lung cancer less than two years after the initial diagnosis.