The proverb ‘A stitch in saves nine’ sits well on annual lung scan because researchers have come up with the idea that annual scans may play an effective role in detecting lung cancer in its preliminary stage and as a result timely medical treatment may save thousands of lives.
Every year, 95 per cent patients die of lung cancer and only those 5 percent remain alive whose cancer formation is detected in the preliminary stage.
In a study, Henschke and other researchers examined about 31567 people who were having no symptoms of lung cancer and found that out of those 484 people were having lung cancer and among those 484 , 412 people were having lung cancer of the first stage and out of those 412 people 8 patients were not given treatment and all those 8 patients died within five years while the other patients turned out healthy.
The conclusion that creeps out from this study is that annual lung scan may help in detecting cancer in its preliminary stage and earlier treatment may save thousands of lives every year.
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