Cheryl

Two major studies reported in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and even USA Today document that X-rays do NOT detect cancer in the lungs as well as a CT scan and even the CT scan is not so hot. Moreover there was no survival rate increase for even smokers who had chest X rays every year. It's from the national Cancer Institute
[quote]Routine chest X-rays do not prevent lung cancer deaths, not even in smokers or former smokers, according to a big government study challenging a once common type of screening.

In the study of more than 150,000 older Americans, those who had four annual chest X-ray screenings were just as likely to die of lung cancer as participants who didn�t have those tests. [/quote]
Here's the article
screening with chest X-rays doesn�t save lives,
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