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Here is some good news for people at risk of developing lung cancer CT scans on a regular basis to help reduce the risk of heavy smokers die of lung cancer by 20 percent and the potential to save thousands of lives according to the results of the study received funds a large Government announced today.

Smoking and exposure to asbestos is risk factors that increase the likelihood of the lung cancer and other diseases of the developingCovers asbestos fibers or breathe loose asbestos dust into the lungs can also cause mesothelioma is cancer of the lining of the lung or heart and stomach of asbestosis, Lung scarring

Study released by the National Cancer Institute There is evidence that CT scans (also called spiral CT scan), preferable to traditional chest x-ray for lung cancer screening, and detecting cancerous tumors at an earlier stage.

Starting in 2002, nationwide study enrolled 53000 than men and women with a history of smoking seriously, set two days 15 years or longer study participants were randomly assigned receive third annual screenings with low dose CT scan or a chest x-ray standards followed five years the number of participants learn 354. CT scan of the lung cancer death while very large 442 deaths occur among people with a different statute chest that is assigned to a specific answer.Convincing a question that how to explore.

Ct scan requires many collapses, as well as a chest while sick keep their breath for seven to 15 seconds at a chest x-ray produces a single picture of the entire chest

"Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and throughout the world, so it is verified that can reduce lung cancer deaths of 20 percent by even a chance to spare a number of very large people from ravages of this disease," said Dr Harold Varmus Director of the National Cancer Institute said in a press release

A combination of exposure asbestos and smoking increases the risk of development of the air passageways in lung cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute