{"id":151315,"date":"2022-11-28T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/lung-cancer-screening-dramatically-increases-long-term-survival"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:25:17","slug":"lung-cancer-screening-dramatically-increases-long-term-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/lung-cancer-screening-dramatically-increases-long-term-survival","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer screening dramatically increases long-term survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lung-cancer-screening-dramatically-increases-long-term-survival2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.3322\/caac.21660\">five-year survival rate<\/a> of only 10\u201320% in most countries. Early diagnosis is key to improving survival rates, but only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed at an early stage. New results from a large multicentre, multinational study show that early detection of lung cancer using low-dose CT screening dramatically improves long-term survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile screening doesn\u2019t prevent cancers from occurring, it is an important tool in identifying lung cancers in their early stage when they can be surgically removed,\u201d explains lead author <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.mountsinai.org\/claudia-i-henschke\">Claudia Henschke<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/\">Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<\/a>, who presented the findings this week at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsna.org\/annual-meeting\">RSNA 2022<\/a>, the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. \u201cSymptoms occur mainly in late-stage lung cancer. Thus, the best way to find early-stage lung cancer is by enrolling in an annual screening programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lung cancer screening study began back in 1992 with the creation of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ielcap.org\/\">I-ELCAP<\/a>), which has enrolled over 87,000 participants from over 80 institutions to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death, with a five-year survival rate of only 10\u201320% in most countries. Early diagnosis is key to improving survival rates, but only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed at an early stage. New results from a large multicentre, multinational study show that early detection of lung cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}