Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit

Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 04:49 in Health & Medicine

Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerised tomography (CT) lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue contains a special focus on tobacco...

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