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Combining Smoking Cessation with Lung Cancer Screening can Decrease Mortality

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Including smoking cessation along with existing lung cancer screening efforts could decrease lung cancer death by 14 percent and boost life-years gained by 81 percent compared with screening alone, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the iJournal of Thoracic Oncology/i. Since about 50% of screen-eligible individuals are still current smokers, cessation interventions at the point of screening are recommended. However, information about the short- and long-term ...

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