A positive screen was defined as any noncalcified nodule at least four millimeters in size or other radiographic finding deemed suspicious for cancer.
A false positive was defined as a positive screen with either a completed negative work-up or at least 12 months follow-up with no cancer diagnosis, the researchers said.
Analysis showed:
* An individual’s cumulative probability of at least one false-positive CT scan was 21% after one screen and 33% after two.
* For chest X-rays, the cumulative probabilities were 9% and 15% after one and two screens, respectively.
* In a multivariate analysis, people over 64 years of age had a 34% increased risk of a false-positive CT scan.
* Of those getting a CT false positive, 6.6% had an invasive diagnostic procedure and 1.6% had major surgery, compared with 4.2% and 1.9%, respectively, for chest X-ray false positives.There are no screening methods for lung cancer that have been shown to reduce death and illness from the disease, which is often only detected in its late stages.
According to the American Cancer Society, the five-year survival rate for localized lung cancer is 49.5%, but that falls to 20.6% for disease that has spread outside the lung and 2.8% if there are distant metastases.
Cancer
How to Kill Prostate Cancer Cells
Kill prostate cancer cells with this stuff
Pepper Component, Capsaicin, Triggers Suicide In Prostate Cancer Cells
Click here to read this article first.
Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle – NYTimes.com
Read this article next.
Dutasteride REDUCE Trial
This study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline.
The study was conducted by a physician who is a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline.
Six Factors Predictive of Melanoma Risk
Newswise Medical News | New Research Finds Six Factors Predictive of Melanoma Risk
The six factors are:
- History of blistering sunburns as a teenager
- Red or blonde hair
- Marked freckling of the upper back – a sign of excessive sun exposure and that a person is susceptible to it
- Family history of melanoma
- History of Actinic Keratoses (AKs) – considered the earliest stage in the development of skin cancer
- Outdoor summer jobs for three or more years as a teenager
To Michael Phelps – Read This
Good News on Cancer
And a Side Order of Cancer with My Double Cheeseburger (hold the statins)
Don’t take this the wrong way. I definitely enjoy a big, juicy double cheeseburger every now and then. I’ve been known to sneak one of those dollar specials into my system too. But in all honesty, I’ll have a large slider maybe just once a month.
Fries too.
Unabashed Self-Promotion
Contact me if your company wants help in designing lifestyle stuff for underwriting purposes.
Newswise Medical News | Saturated Fat Linked to Cancer of the Small Intestine
PSST…Wanna Learn How to Write a Cancer Abstract?
I’ve always felt that good writing comes from good thinking and that learning how to write well is difficult. With the advent of the Internet you can find wonderful teaching websites for the craft of writing. My inner underwriter has always believed that if underwriters were taught how to write about disease we could ultimately better understand some of the cryptic medical language found in the APS’s we read every day. Well you’ll never guess what I found while doing some purposeful surfing (not mindless).
I’ve added a link to the training modules from the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program at Emory University, Atlanta SEER Cancer Registry, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
This training website provides web-based training modules for cancer registration and surveillance. When the site is complete, it will comprise about 30 training modules, each covering a particular cancer registration training subject. The site started in September, 2000 and is under continual development.
And to think all I wanted was to find out a little more about recurrent high grade focal dysplasia just to make sure the pathologist was on spot about the colonic mass despite everyone else calling the thing cancer. I’m gonna have some fun playing around in this website.
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