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Yearly low-dose CT lung cancer screening is important for those at high risk

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Yearly low-dose CT lung cancer screening is important for those at high risk

August 23, 2016 12:00

Patients who test negative for lung cancer using low-dose helical CT (LDCT) but later develop lung cancer within the next two years had worse outcomes than patients who initially had a non-cancerous finding. The results were from a Moffitt Cancer Center study that was recently published in PLOS One.

Lung cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women, according to the American Cancer Society. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancer combined.

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