Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 13:42
in Health & Medicine
Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue contains a special focus on tobacco.