Even though Mike Miron had already quit smoking and didn’t have any symptoms, a scan revealed something suspicious in his lungs. Cancer.
Cancer was confirmed with a biopsy, but the tumor was still tiny because it was caught through a special lung-screening program at Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore.
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Miron is spreading the word about the early screening program because of the surprisingly low number of nurses he met while he had surgery to have 12 percent of his lung removed.
The Flying Scotsman download According to Baltimore Enquirer writer Sara Michael, the Early Lung Cancer Action Program was started in 1992 by physicians at the Cornell University Medical Center and has expanded to around 50 institutions worldwide.
A study has reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that lung cancer could be detected in its earliest stages in 85 percent of patients receiving annual computed tomography scans. However, insurance companies do not cover the scans and major health associations have not endorsed the program.
Others believe that the scans create too many unnecessary biopsies, but about 90percent of patients who had biopsies as a result of the test results had malignant tumors, says Dr. Claudia Henschke, a pioneer of the program. “As technology continues to improve over the years, so will the program,” she added.
So, that early scan is critical in saving lives otherwise lost to lung cancer.
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