Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans is so effective in detecting early lung cancers that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has updated and expanded its screening recommendation to now include those that meet all of the following criteria: Anyone over 50...
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Updated Guidelines For Lung Cancer Screening Could Save 25,000 Lives Annually, But Doctors And Their Patients Need To Have Candid And Honest Conversations
Although doctors continue to encourage patients to not smoke, it is an addiction that has afflicted millions of Americans. We now know that that even smokers who can't stop smoking can be saved from dying of lung cancer if diagnosed early. In 2006, medical research...
Doctors Need Be Honest with Smokers – Lung Cancer Screening Saves Lives.
Under medical guidelines first introduced in 2012, physicians are supposed to discuss lung cancer screening in long-term smokers and ex-smokers. Unfortunately, less than 10% of doctors talk about screening with long-term smokers today. The low rate of patient-reported...
Avoiding Acute Stroke – A Physician-Patient Shared Responsibility
Ischemic stroke occurs when blood stops flowing to part of your brain and cells begin to die. Depending on what area of the brain is affected, one can experience a loss of movement, speech, understanding and, if extensive enough, death. A patient's lifestyle choices...
Continuity of Care Makes a Difference
Increased continuity of care lowers patient mortality according to a study published in BMJ Open, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Patients across all demographics had lower mortality when continued care was provided by the same primary care physician or specialist....
Signs of a Strong Personal Injury Claim
Pursuing damages for a personal injury can feel like a leap of faith. Although an attorney can advise you surrounding your case and what they believe the outcome to be, there are no guarantees. However, sometimes, the risk is worth the reward, especially if an...
Lung Cancer Screening Rates Still Abysmally Low
Despite lung cancer screening guidelines for smokers being issued in 2013, the rate of lung cancer screening is abysmally low with only about 3% of eligible smokers undergoing low-dose CT lung cancer screening. The USPTFS guidelines are for long term smokers with a...
Smokers Need Lung Cancer Screening
Public health warnings have been effective in getting more Americans to stop smoking cigarettes, but lung cancer still kills more Americans than any other cancer. The percentage of Americans who smoke has decreased by half over about the last 30 years, from 30% in...
Personalized Medicine for Screening Mammograms
A woman's decision about when to start breast cancer screening mammograms should be a matter of personal choice, not association guidelines. A recent study in Cancer looked at the differences in likely outcomes of various breast cancer screening...
Flu Vaccines – Important for Health but Not Without Risk
As fall approaches, flu vaccines are being administered to young and old to avoid the seasonal flu which comes every year. People need to know that although vaccines have eradicated many diseases, they are not without risk. While most will receive their flu vaccine...
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