Jefferson's Lung Nodule Clinic and Use of CT Screenings Featured on 6 ABC and ABC News
The results of a study involving 53,000 current and former smokers who were screened with low-dose CT scans showed that lung cancer deaths can be cut by 20 percent compared to using standard X-rays.
Jefferson's Lung Nodule Clinic and our use of CT scans as a new life-saving screening for early lung cancer were mentioned in local and national coverage of the results of the Lung Cancer Screening Trial, published on June 29, 2011 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Read 6 ABC's "CT scans save lives from lung cancer" and ABC News' "Hospitals Offering Lung Cancer CT Scans" articles for mentions of Jefferson University Hospitals.
Publication: 6 ABC & ABC News
Published: 6/29/2011