Lung cancer screening only for some smokers, ages

Monday, July 29, 2013 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

An influential group of government advisers has endorsed lung cancer screening for the first time - but not for everybody. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is proposing annual CT scans, a type of X-ray, for certain current and former smokers....

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