Lung cancer screen: a license to smoke?
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Lung cancer screen: a license to smoke?
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Most Recently Shared on January 3, 2011 at 4:51 am By:
Lung cancer screen: a license to smoke?: Dutch researchers have found that men who screen negative for lung canc... http://bit.ly/dZWuPQ
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Tobacco control programs work, says study - Houston Chronicle
chron.com — “U.S. tobacco-control programs prevented nearly 800,000 lung cancer deaths in the last quarter of the 20th century, but more than three times as many could have been spared had the entire population stopped smoking in 1965, according to a landmark study released Wednesday. The study, conducted by researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and other institutions, provides the first numbers showing the life-saving effect of tobacco tax hikes, bans on smoking” View full resource at chron.com
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"Screening is good secondary prevention, but we now know just how many deaths primary prevention can avert," says... http://t.co/UGF3d2jb
St Luke's of Cedar Rapids :: Lung Check
stlukescr.org — “Screening for men or women between the ages of 55 and 74 who have smoked at least one pack a day for 30 years or more or two packs per day for 15 years.” View full resource at stlukescr.org
Most Recently Shared on November 2, 2011 at 3:44 pm By:
St. Luke’s knows the best chance of a cure 4 lung cancer is early detection. That’s y we’ve developed Lung Check . http://t.co/SzK0yPwF
Chest X ray for lung cancer fails to improve survival compared to no screening: Study
news-medical.net — “This study followed 154,901 participants, about half of whom were women. About 10 percent were current smokers, and the rest were nearly evenly divided between former smokers and people who never smoked. Subjects were either offered a chest X-ray or no screening at all.” View full resource at news-medical.net
Most Recently Shared on October 27, 2011 at 6:58 am By:
Lung Cancer News: Chest X ray for lung cancer fails to improve survival compared to no screening: Study: This st... http://t.co/TqZWM1X7
Lung-Cancer Mortality and Low-Dose CT Screening | Now@NEJM
blogs.nejm.org — “A 65 year-old man comes to your office. Let’s call him Joe. He is former smoker, but quit 10 years ago after smoking one pack daily for 35 years. He has” View full resource at blogs.nejm.org
Most Recently Shared on August 5, 2011 at 12:22 am By:
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Should former smokers get lung CT scans to live longer? Maybe: see http://ow.ly/5VECv but many false positives, via @nejm
Lung-Cancer Mortality and Low-Dose CT Screening | Now@NEJM
blogs.nejm.org — “A 65 year-old man comes to your office. Let’s call him Joe. He is former smoker, but quit 10 years ago after smoking one pack daily for 35 years. He has” View full resource at blogs.nejm.org
Most Recently Shared on August 4, 2011 at 7:15 pm By:
On Now@NEJM blog, should we be CT screening all high-risk lung cancer patients based on NLST results? http://nej.md/r156NG
Lung-Cancer Mortality and Low-Dose CT Screening | Now@NEJM
blogs.nejm.org — “A 65 year-old man comes to your office. Let’s call him Joe. He is former smoker, but quit 10 years ago after smoking one pack daily for 35 years. He has” View full resource at blogs.nejm.org
Most Recently Shared on August 3, 2011 at 9:01 pm By:
Thomas Loarie, Jr Health Advocate
@NEJM Lung-Cancer Mortality and Low-Dose CT Screening http://bit.ly/pCW38Z #medical #journal
CT Scan Screening Reduces Lung Cancer Death Risk More Than X-rays - QualityPoint Technologies
qualitypointtech.net — “Patients screened with low-dose helical CT (computed tomography) have a 20% lower risk of dying from lung cancer compared to those screened with chest X-rays, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The authors revealed their findings from NLST (National Lung Screening Trial), involving 53,000 individuals who either smoked heavily during the trial or used to do so. With over 94 million current or ex-smokers in the USA, lung cancer is the country's leading cause of can” View full resource at qualitypointtech.net
Most Recently Shared on July 3, 2011 at 1:45 am By:
CT Scan Screening Reduces Lung Cancer Death Risk More Than X-rays: Patients screened with low-dose helical CT (com... http://bit.ly/maSmNT
Who should get screened for lung cancer? | Reuters
reuters.com — “NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using chest scans to screen for lung cancer in people who've never smoked and have no symptoms might help catch cancers early and decrease the disease's death toll, suggests” View full resource at reuters.com
Most Recently Shared on July 2, 2011 at 4:08 pm By:
Who should get screened for lung cancer?: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using chest scans to screen for lung cance... http://bit.ly/lJJDSH
Who should get screened for lung cancer? - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com — “Read 'Who should get screened for lung cancer?' on Yahoo! News. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using chest scans to screen for lung cancer in people who've never smoked and have no symptoms might help catch cancers early and decrease the disease's death toll, suggests a new study from Japan.” View full resource at news.yahoo.com
Most Recently Shared on July 1, 2011 at 3:53 pm By:
Who should get screened for lung cancer?: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using chest scans to screen for lung canc... http://yhoo.it/kSvSKS
Who should get screened for lung cancer? | Reuters
reuters.com — “NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using chest scans to screen for lung cancer in people who've never smoked and have no symptoms might help catch cancers early and decrease the disease's death toll, suggests” View full resource at reuters.com
Most Recently Shared on July 1, 2011 at 3:08 pm By:
Who should get screened for lung cancer? http://reut.rs/lSUC0F
CT Scans Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths Among Smokers | Screening Heavy Smokers | My Health News Daily
myhealthnewsdaily.com — “Screening heavy smokers for cancer with spiral computer tomography (CT) scans detects early signs of lung cancer and reduces deaths by around 20 percent, according to the National Lung Screening Trial.” View full resource at myhealthnewsdaily.com
Most Recently Shared on July 1, 2011 at 3:04 pm By:
CT scans of smokers reduce lung cancer deaths http://bit.ly/k8rQat #health #smoking
Who should get screened for lung cancer? | Reuters
reuters.com — “NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using chest scans to screen for lung cancer in people who've never smoked and have no symptoms might help catch cancers early and decrease the disease's death toll, suggests” View full resource at reuters.com
Most Recently Shared on July 1, 2011 at 2:55 pm By:
Who should get screened for lung cancer? http://bit.ly/iH1elA
IASLC Welcomes Publication Of CT Screening Results From National Lung Screening Trial
medicalnewstoday.com — “The NLST study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that lung cancer deaths fell by 20% and all-cause mortality fell by 7% when heavy smokers were screened regularly” View full resource at medicalnewstoday.com
Most Recently Shared on July 1, 2011 at 9:05 am By:
IASLC Welcomes Publication Of CT Screening Results From National Lung Screening Trial http://mnt.to/3XSL #lungcancer
Lung cancer screening CT scans: Study bolsters evidence that screening reduces lung cancer deaths - latimes.com
latimes.com — “Screening smokers and ex-smokers with spiral CT scans can reduce lung cancer deaths by 20% without triggering too many dangerous or unnecessary tests that sometimes result from cancer screening programs, researchers reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.” View full resource at latimes.com
Most Recently Shared on June 30, 2011 at 6:50 pm By:
CT scans for #LungCancer: Study bolsters evidence that screening reduces #lung #cancer deaths http://ow.ly/5u2JX #smoking #tobacco
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