Curbing the nation's deadliest cancer.

MORTALITY prevention; HEALTH services accessibility; PATIENT advocacy; PATIENT selection; LUNG tumors; EARLY detection of cancer; SEX distribution; RISK assessment; COMMUNICATION; SMOKING; WOMEN'S health; DISEASE risk factors

The discusses the importance of lung cancer screening to avoid cancer. Topics discussed include that 50% of American women die from lung cancer each year than from breast cancer; the screening is necessary for certain people who smoke or use to smoke as they are at higher risk for lung cancer; and discussed obstacles in screening including low-dose CT which is unable to identify early stage lung cancer and some lesions.