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Landmark Study Involving United Steelworkers Reveals that Lung Cancer 10-Year Survival Dramatically Improves with Annual CT Screening and Prompt Treatment
For Immediate Release October 31, 2006
NEW YORK – Lung cancer can be detected at its very earliest stage in 85 percent of patients using annual low-dose CT screening, and, when followed by prompt surgical removal, the 10-year survival rate is 92 percent. These results, to be reported in the October 26 New England Journal of Medicine, would dramatically decrease the number of deaths from lung cancer – the number one cause of cancer deaths among both men and women in the U.S.
The study is the fruit of an international collaboration among 38 institutions in 7 countries, the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project (I-ELCAP). The United Steelworkers (USW) is one of these institutions and has enrolled the second largest United States study population in the overall I-ELCAP study. The United Steelworkers study involved CT scanning 6,220 U.S. Department of Energy workers at the DOE gaseous diffusion plants in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Ky. The United Steelworkers have partnered with Steven Markowitz M.D. of Queens College of the City University of New York to conduct this study, which is funded by the Department of Energy.
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