CT screening reduces lung-cancer deaths in heavy smokers

Friday, November 19, 2010 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying heavy smokers, the National Cancer Institute’s 33-center National Lung Screening Trial found that significantly fewer who were screened with low-dose CT scans died from lung cancer than heavy smokers screened with standard chest X-rays.

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