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PREVIOUS TUMOUR AS A PREDICTOR OF RISK OF DEVELOPING LUNG CANCER ($$)
An estimated 174 470 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed
and 162 460 patients with lung cancer will die in the USA in
2006.1 Worldwide, a more staggering 1 352 132 new cases of lung
cancer were diagnosed and 1 178 918 patients with lung cancer
died in 2002.2 A low overall 5 year survival of 1521% has been
observed for all clinical stages combined due to findings of
localised (or stage I or II) lung cancers in only 1642% of all
new cases of lung cancer.3
In order to improve survival among new cases of lung cancer,
several efforts are being made to identify more patients with
lung cancer while in the earlier stages (ie, small primary
tumours with no mediastinal or distant metastasis) by both
clinical and radiographic means. The use of chest radiograpphy
with or without . . . [Full text of this article]
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