Screening test offers hope
February 6th, 2011
Until recently, no screening test for lung cancer had ever shown the ability to detect this malignancy early enough to make a difference in survival.
But in November, the National Cancer Institute released initial results of a study, involving 53,000 former and heavy smokers, which compared chest X-rays to spiral computed tomography and found a 20 percent reduction in mortality in the group getting annual spiral CT.