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Lung Cancer Screening in the News

The National Cancer Institute has commissioned the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial, to the tune of 50,000 participants and $200 million. This huge and expensive trial comparing patients screened by CT scan with those screened by X-ray hopes to definitively answer the question of whether lung cancer screening is beneficial. The US Preventative Services Task [...]