0 Lung cancer screening

Checkups are the people for early stages of a disease before they have symptoms. Can be carried out before screening for any type of cancer, physicians must have an accurate and reliable tests to use. The test has a grip on cancer, that it reliably. And it should not produce false positive results. A false positive result means a test that makes it look as if cancer could be present if it is not.

At the moment there is no national screening program for lung cancer in the UK. Should be introduced for the screening, we need a test that's easy, fast, not too expensive and not harmful. It is always cheaper screen people at high risk, but as all the screen. For lung cancer are the people who smoke have an increased risk. So many studies to see whether screening smokers makes sense.

Lung cancer is often picked up on chest x-ray. But by the time of diagnosis, in this way, it is often quite advanced. Researchers are trying other screening tests that help diagnose lung cancer earlier find. They are called a spiral CT scan and looking for a particular type of bronchoscopy for people at high risk for lung cancer.