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Here's why early diagnosis of lung cancer is important...

The survival rates for early stage disease are quite high, approaching 80 percent in some series.

According to this recent study,

Researchers have shown that low-dose spiral computer-based tomographic (CT) screening for the early detection of lung cancer can lead to an early diagnosis in a high proportion of cases, potentially increasing the chances for a cure.

Read the article here at Medical News Today

Because early detection can be so successful with cancer, it is important that the testing be read correctly.  This is where misdiagnosis of lung cancer cases come from.  Once the window of opportunity to treat a disease is closed, then the chances of survival drop.  This loss of chance is what drives a cancer misdiagnosis medical malpractice case.