Many lung cancer tumours prove harmless, study finds

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 11:00 in Health & Medicine

A provocative analysis suggests the world's top cancer killer isn't as deadly as doctors once thought, finding that almost 1 in 5 lung tumours detected on CT scans are probably so slow-growing that they would never cause problems.

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