Early diagnosis of lung cancer: is rapid access CT scanning the answer?

Tsiakkis, Demetris, Graham, Yitka and Cox, Julie (2019) Early diagnosis of lung cancer: is rapid access CT scanning the answer? British Journal of General Practice, 69 (679). pp. 90-91. ISSN 0960-1643

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Lung cancer remains the most common cause of cancer mortality in Britain. The 10-year survival rate from the disease is in the order of 5%, because the majority of patients pre-sent with advanced disease. Five year survival rates for lung cancer in the UK from 2000-2014 are only 13%, lagging far behind most other EU nations. These findings, which were published in the Lancet in January 2018, have also been widely reported in many national newspapers.