Let's Get Rid Of Those Black Spots!

Research is being done on prevention, early detection, and treatment. Many researchers believe prevention is the greatest chance to fight against lung cancer. Obviously, smoking is related to lung cancer but researchers believe smoking is only 87% responsible for lung cancer. They are doing research on way to get people to quit smoking with counseling, nicotine replacement or any other medicines. Also, ways to get teens and younger people not to even start smoking to help prevent lung cancer in the future. They have discovered that with a high fruit and veggie diet, it has given people little protection. In the past, people thought they could find cancer soon enough to find the cancer by doing chest x-rays and other testing. But they've ended those type of tests because they couldn't find the cancer soon enough. They have recently tested high risk patients (because of smoking) in a spiral CT scanning and it has lowered their risk of cancer. Research is being continued on this issue.