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An advocacy perspective on screening and early diagnosis of lung cancer
Author(s) -
McCarthy Peggy M.,
Jelsing Nadine C.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(20001201)89:11+<2510::aid-cncr34>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - medicine , perspective (graphical) , lung cancer , intensive care medicine , oncology , computer science , artificial intelligence
Lung cancer is the leading cause of death by cancer throughout the world, and it is clear that smoking prevention and cessation programs in and of themselves cannot stop or even slow down this lung cancer “epidemic.” The only hope for reducing the number of lives lost to lung cancer lies in creating and implementing broad‐range approaches for screening people who are at risk for lung cancer and for diagnosing the disease in its early stages when a cure is possible.