Early Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer
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The very point of early diagnosis is to find lung cancer . forgotten that lung cancer is diagnosed more often in. former smokers than in current smokers. .
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Another major finding of the Lung Health Study, which followed 5,887 middle-aged smokers and exsmokers of both sexes, was that lung cancer is a more common cause of death than heart attack and stroke. The association between COPD—even early-stage disease—and lung cancer has been known for many years. 3 ' 4 Recently, a 2% prevalence of lung cancer was reported among heavy smokers (i.e., 30 pack-years or more) with airflow obstruction who were evaluated by sputum cytology 5 or low-dose helical computed tomography (CT). 6 Lung can- cer was detected at an early stage in both of these studies, indicating that cures could be expected in these patients. Thus, it seems reason- able to embark on lung cancer screening programs, particularly in high-risk groups. The arguments against early diagnosis of lung cancer are based on three studies sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the mid-1970s. These studies concluded that even though resectability and survival were increased in screened patients, overall disease-specific mortality did not change substantially.
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