Cancer: CT Scans or X-Rays? Lung Cancer Screening Trial Raises Some (Ethical) Dilemmas - The Doctor
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Cancer: CT Scans or X-Rays? Lung Cancer Screening Trial Raises Some (Ethical) Dilemmas - The Doctor
CT scans can catch lung cancer sooner than x-rays do, but do the risks, like radiation exposure and costs outweigh the benefits? Two experts in the field, Frank Detterbeck, MD, FACS, FCCP, Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Associate Director of the Yale Cancer Center and Dr. Claudia Henschke, MD, PhD clinical professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University discuss the issues.
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Tags: Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Lung Cancer, Lung, Imaging Tests, CT Scan, X-Ray, Mortality
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