Screening chest x-ray detects early-stage lung cancers at high rates, study results show
21st Dec 2005, 00:02 GMT
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 December 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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