{"id":85396,"date":"2018-12-02T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/screening-for-early-lung-cancer"},"modified":"2018-12-02T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:02:52","slug":"screening-for-early-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/screening-for-early-lung-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Screening for Early Lung Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/screening-for-early-lung-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But while screening can be extremely helpful, it also carries some risks. Here\u2019s what you need to know about lung cancer screenings.<\/p>\n<p><b>How does lung cancer screening work?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Currently, there\u2019s only one recommended screening test for lung cancer: low-dose computer tomography (low-dose CT scan). This test creates images of the inside of the body \u2014 or in this case, the lungs \u2014 using low doses of radiation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/managing-lung-cancer\/screening\">https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/managing-lung-cancer\/screening<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But while screening can be extremely helpful, it also carries some risks. Here\u2019s what you need to know about lung cancer screenings. How does lung cancer screening work? Currently, there\u2019s only one recommended screening test for lung cancer: low-dose computer tomography (low-dose CT scan). This test creates images of the inside of the body \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85396","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}