Linda Carroll is a regular health contributor to NBC News. She is coauthor of 'The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic' and 'Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings.'
Only a fraction of people at high risk for lung cancer are getting screened for the disease even though it kills more in the United States than breast, colorectal and prostate cancers combined. New American Cancer Society guidelines will allow millions more to become eligible for regular scans that can detect tumors early enough to save lives. With one important exception, the new guidelines echo existing recommendations from the highly influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
More than 80% of people whose lung cancer was caught early through screening were still alive after 20 years, according to research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, presented at the Radiological Society of North America meeting last year. According to the cancer society's estimates, there will be 238,340 new cases of lung cancer and 127,070 deaths from the disease this year.
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