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Lung Cancer Screening
There is an undeniable fact about lung cancer - the disease is detected early, the greater the chances of recovery. Therefore, screening for lung cancer is an important first-hand.

Doctors stressed that, although overall survival rates for lung cancer five years of branding, only 15% survival rate for those whose cancer is detected early and can be treated surgically as high as 80%. For this reason, some doctors recommend regular screening for breast cancer with X-ray.

Once the disease is less advanced, it will quickly spread to other parts of the lungs and critical organs in the body. At this stage the operation is not a practical treatment.

Unfortunately, the initial stage of lung cancer was given no signs of alarm. Common symptoms include persistent cough, with a tendency to respiratory illness, etc. These symptoms are not only to lung cancer. Therefore, it is rarely diagnosed with lung cancer until it is too late.

In this context, regular screening for lung cancer - at least for those who are most vulnerable to development, such as smoking - seems a reasonable choice. However, unlike many other diseases (including cancer of the other) is not an effective test for the detection of lung cancer.

In most cases, lung cancer is detected in the tests as chest X-ray for other health problems. Due to the risks associated with them, doctors will not recommend routine chest X-ray as verification. Many believed (until recently) that the chest X-rays can be quite misleading in terms of cancer.

This finding study conducted in 1970 based. These studies showed that chest X-ray is not effective in detecting dangerous, fast-spreading cancer in the early stage. Moreover, these relatively slow-growing tumors were open surgery and other treatments that are not really necessary.

However, many things have changed since the surveys are done. Today, x-ray is more sensitive than their time. There are many tests that may be available clay to be used to respond to problems identified by X-ray.

A new study by National Cancer Institute, a group of healthy adults 150.000. This study, sponsored by the U.S. government says that 150,000 people in two equal groups - one group elected each year, X-ray, while others (representing the control group) received no such control is not.

Preliminary results show, the doctors find something odd about 6,000 people. They continued with CT and X-rays and other diagnostic tests. These people with 206 biopsies. Eventually, 126 people were diagnosed with cancer. This group only 2.1% of the original 6000 with abnormalities in the x-rays.

The bad news is that 6000 a large number of false positives produced. This led to unnecessary Follow-up X-ray, CAT scan, etc. The good news is that discovered cancer, 44% were completely in the early stages of the disease - if the cancer is curable and the best chance of survival high.

The final results of this ongoing study will be available only for a few years. But according to preliminary results, it appears that regular breast cancer screening X-rays may help early detection and treatment to improve the rate of this disease.



 
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