Area hospitals to offer lung-cancer screenings

Doctors hope to detect disease early in longtime smokers

By Kayley Mendenhall / The Bulletin
May 20, 2005

Of all the types of cancers, lung cancer kills the most people in the United States every year, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Yet, unlike breast and colon cancer, there is no protocol in place to screen patients at risk of developing lung cancer before symptoms occur, said Dr. Ed....

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