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Lung Cancer Alliance Launches Early Detection Web
Site to Educate Those at Highest Risk
Launches on heels of
major study showing importance of CT screening
 November 22, 2006 – Riding the crest of interest
created by the recent study indicating the high value of low-dose CT
screening in the early detection of lung cancer, the Lung Cancer
Alliance has launched a new Website aimed at educating people on the
deadliest cancer and this new hope for early detection.
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The launch of LCA's site, which targets at risk
people, comes less than one month after the landmark study was published
in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study found that yearly
low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) screening for people at high risk can
detect lung cancer at the earliest stage, dramatically increasing chance
of survival.
The current five-year survival rate for people
diagnosed with lung cancer is only 15 percent. More than 70% of new lung
cancers are diagnosed in people whose cancer is at late- stage, when
survival is poor.
Remarkably, the study showed an estimated 92 percent
ten-year survival rate for those whose cancers are detected early and
removed immediately.
Lung cancer has long been the number one cancer killer of
men, but it did not become the number one killer of U.S. women in 1987,
primarily the result of increased smoking by women. Lung cancer passed
up breast cancer as the top female killer and many point to one reason
being the lack of early diagnosis and treatment for lung cancer.
Over 72,000 U.S. women are expected to die from
lung cancer this year, which will be 30,000 more than die from breast
cancer and more than 25 percent of all cancer deaths for women.
Surprisingly, however, less than 82,000 new cases of lung cancer are
expected this year, while there will be 213,000 new cases of breast
cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
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No All in Agreement |
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Can lung scans really prevent cancer
deaths?
Proponents say yes, while skeptics urge more testing Nov 17, 2006 - NBC's Mike Taibbi — a lifelong smoker who quit
the habit last year — brought viewers along as he took a
state-of-the-art spiral CT scan test for lung cancer. Happily
for Mike and his family, there were no signs of cancer. But can
that test really prevent 80 percent of the 160,000 lung cancer
deaths a year, as its proponents claim? That's the focus of
Mike's follow-up report.
More at MSNBC-
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Lung cancer will kill about 90,000 U.S. men this
year.
"We now know that screening those at high risk can
detect lung cancer at the earliest stages, when it's most treatable,"
said Laurie Fenton, President of Lung Cancer Alliance.
"This new site
provides smokers, former smokers, or anyone at high risk for developing
lung cancer with an education about the screening process. It is
critical for people to know their risks, and to know that they can now
do something to protect themselves from this lethal disease."
Screenforlungcancer.org provides information on the
importance of screening and the screening process, tools for assessing a
person's risk for developing lung cancer, and a directory of leading
institutions with the highest screening standards. Visitors can also
experience the entire screening process by viewing videos of a person
undergoing a CT scan, as well as photographs.
LCA is the only national organization solely
dedicated to patient support and advocacy for people living with or at
risk for lung cancer, which causes more deaths in the United States than
any other cancer.
As the number one cancer killer, lung cancer will
kill more than 160,000 Americans this year alone, causing more deaths
than breast, prostate, colon, liver, kidney cancers and melanoma
combined. For more information on the services provided by Lung Cancer
Alliance, visit
http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/.
>> New Website -
http://www.screenforlungcancer.org/
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