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2. New lung cancer screening guidelines include heavy smokers ...

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   Many smokers and former smokers don’t realize that a simple low-dose CT scan can catch lung cancers early enough to save their lives. Even among primary care physicians, who would be the ones to ...

3. More older former smokers need lung cancer screening, experts say

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   The lung cancer risk to former smokers does decrease over time when compared with similar people who continue to smoke. When compared with never-smokers, however, their risks remain three times ...

4. National Lung Screening Trial - Wikipedia

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   The ages of the patients in the trial varied from 55 to 74. When their initial findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers reported that low-dose CT scanning was associated with a 20% decrease in deaths from lung cancer, [5] [6] and that this effect was visible in both current smokers and former smokers. [7]

5. Lung cancer screening - Wikipedia

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   [23] 3,200 current or former smokers were screened for 4 years and offered 3 or 4 CT scans. Lung cancer diagnoses were 3 times as high, and surgeries were 10 times as high, as predicted by a model, but there were no significant differences between observed and expected numbers of advanced cancers or deaths. [24]

6. Squamous-cell carcinoma of the lung - Wikipedia

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   Lung squamous-cell carcinoma is the second most common histologic type of lung cancer after adenocarcinoma, reaching 22.6% of all lung cancer cases as of 2012. [11] The relative incidence of the former has been steadily decreasing in favor of the latter due to the decreasing smoking rates in the last few years. [9]

7. Non-smoker diagnosed with cancer at 34 after car ... - AOL

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   Lung cancer in non-smokers is increasing “on a relative basis,” as the number of people who smoke has decreased, says Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer at the American Cancer Society.