From the University of Kansas: KU Cancer Center partners with nation’s top cancer organizations to call for increasing lung cancer screening nationwide

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The University of Kansas reports that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US. It does not have to be that way, and a national call to action encouraging use of low-dose CT to fight the leading cause of cancer in the United States is needed.

“Despite advances in treatment and successful efforts to reduce smoking, the disease kills more than 350 people in the U.S. each day — but it doesn’t have to be this way.”

Read the full article here.

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