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Figure 1.16:
(a) CT scan June 2000 (b) CT scan June 2001 (c) CT scan June
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staging criteria [38]. The disproportionately high prevalence and mortality of
lung cancer has encouraged attempts to detect early lung cancer with screening
programs aimed at smokers. Smokers have an incidence rate of lung cancer that
is 10 times that of nonsmokers and accounts for more than 80% of lung cancer
cases in the United States [38]. One in every 18 woman and every 12 men develop
lung cancer, making it the leading cause of cancer deaths. Early detection of lung
tumors (visible on chest film as nodules) may increase the patient's chance of
survival.
