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Screening Chest X-Ray Detects Early-Stage Lung Cancers at High Rates, Study Results Show
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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Almost half of lung cancers detected by a chest x-ray were early-stage cancers, according to baseline results of a large, randomized clinical trial that is testing the efficacy of a chest x-ray as a screening test for lung cancer. The study results are published in the