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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(19):1606-1608; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.19.1606
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 19, 1606-1608, October 6, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Experts Are Cautious, Optimistic About Detecting Lung Cancers Earlier

Lou Fintor

New techniques for detecting lung cancer earlier, as well as with more accuracy and precision, have experts cautiously optimistic that significant progress in battling the nation's leading cause of cancer-related death may finally be at hand.

In a July study in the British journal The Lancet, researchers in New York and Montreal reported that helical low-dose computed tomography scanning appears to be useful in detecting malignant lung tumors relatively early.

At the same time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new diagnostic imaging agent test kit for patients with suspicious lung abnormalities. And the preliminary results of a pilot biomarkers study make the possibility of eventually developing a blood test for lung cancer more likely (see sidebar).

CT Scans vs. X-rays

In the New York/Montreal study, Cornell Medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Detection and Survival

Efficacy and Cost

Policy Implications

Refining Studies


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