Why would I want to have a lung cancer screening CT?

The best hope for curing lung cancer is finding it as early as possible; the I-ELCAP research shows that annual CT screening can find 85% of lung cancers in their earliest, most curable stage.  If you are at risk, a CT scan can detect tiny spots on your lungs (called 'nodules') that may indicate lung cancer in this early stage (New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 355; 1763-1771).

Related Publications: 
Early Lung Cancer Action Project: overall design and findings from baseline screening
Computed tomography screening for lung cancer: prospects of surviving competing causes of death
Survival of patients with stage I lung cancer detected on CT screening
CT screening for lung cancer: significance of diagnoses in its baseline cycle
CT screening for lung cancer: prevalence and incidence of mediastinal masses
CT- and computer-based features of small hamartomas
CT Screening for lung cancer: diagnoses resulting from the New York Early Lung Cancer Action Project
CT screening for lung cancer: suspiciousness of nodules according to size on baseline scans
CT screening for lung cancer: individualizing the benefit of the screening
Computed tomographic screening for lung cancer: the relationship of disease stage to tumor size
Three-dimensional segmentation of solitary pulmonary nodules from helical CT scans. P
CT screening for lung cancer Assessing a regimen's diagnostic performance
CT screening for lung cancer: update of the definition of positive test result and its implications
Screening for lung cancer: the Early Lung Cancer Action Approach.
CT screening for lung cancer: the value of short-term CT follow-up
CT screening for lung cancer: frequency and significance of part-solid and nonsolid nodules
Studies: 
I-ELCAP
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