Dr. Axelrod Quoted in HemOnc Today About Chest Radiographic Screening
In a randomized screening trial of 155,000 participants, four years of annual chest radiographic screening did not reduce cumulative lung cancer mortality during thirteen years of follow-up. These results provide evidence that lung cancer screening with chest radiography is not effective.
Dr. Rita Axelrod, a medical oncologist at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, gives her perspective on this study in a HemOnc Today story. Dr. Axelrod asserts, "This study emphasizes the fact that chest radiographs don't save lives in lung cancer and they don't detect reliably at an earlier stage."
Learn more by reading "PLCO: Annual chest radiographic screening failed to reduce lung cancer mortality."
Publication: HemOnc Today
Published: 11/25/2011