Just the word cancer is frightening. Cancer in the human body can take multiple forms. Liver, bone, tumors, even blood cancer. (Leukemia.) But the cancer that takes the most lives in the United States, is lung cancer. loading...

Why is this true?

Some experts say that the reason lung cancer is so devastating in the United States is because the current rules for screening for lung cancer are not as effective as say colon cancer or breast cancer.

According to seattletimes.com,

‘ Under current recommendations, people are eligible for screening if they are 50 to 80 years old and have a history of heavy smoking, either actively or in the past 15 years. But those guidelines exclude a large number of people who could have their cancer detected earlier, according to a new stu

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