Donna

Sorry. Since nobody is recommending to me any scans of my chest, not X-rays, not CT, zero nada zip, these articles caught my attention. The Wall St Journal version did not think much of CTs either even though CT's lowered the death rate by 20% over X rays
[quote]Dr. Berg said the results mean the challenge for researchers is to improve CT scans to reduce the rate of false positives, which can lead to additional tests that are expensive and, in a small number of cases, complications from those tests. In the recently published National Lung Screening Trial, she said, 95% of the abnormalities detected by CT turned out not to be cancer[/quote].
Here is the WSJ version X-Rays No Help Against Lung Cancer
Now if I can just get NCI to similarly expose PETscans

Charm

Last edited by Charm2017; 10-27-2011 10:02 AM. Reason: added WSJ link

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2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
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2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

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