Lung cancer screening will help the families of early detection

Smoke, have a family history of lung cancer were the two major high-risk groups, such as the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital research team for lung cancer families to low-dose 64-section computed tomography (64-cut CT) examination showed 15% abnormal ratio, a high degree of suspicion reached 6.5% in the proportion of lung cancer, one of lung cancer has been confirmed. 

 Lung cancer in 10, not only among the best, the death toll rose year by year, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Ying-Huang Tsai, vice president, said the effect of early treatment of lung cancer better, but found that difficult, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital statistics into more than five cases at the time of diagnosis is late. 

 Ying-Huang Tsai said, smoking and lung cancer has a high degree of correlation is an indisputable fact that, while family history of lung cancer is also a risk factor that can not be ignored. Internal research shows that parents or brothers and sisters have one person suffering from lung cancer, lung cancer is its 2-fold higher than the opportunity, if the pro-3, etc. have been more than two or more lung cancer, which is the so-called "multi-family", their lung cancer machine rate was even higher than 14-fold. 

 Past studies have shown the traditional X-ray is very difficult to find early lung cancer, in recent years, many to make computer tomography examination, according to foreign large-scale studies have shown that for most people to carry out a CT scan, a lung cancer screening were a total of about 0.3% to 0.5%, while for smoke screening high-risk group, while there is 2-3% of patients with lung cancer, Ying-Huang Tsai note, this shows that for high-risk groups for screening the effectiveness of good, but also more effective. 

 Since last October, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Medical Center 6 studies, the use of CT screening for all 64 family members of patients with lung cancer nearly 300 people and found that 15% of people have lung nodules 0.5 cm or more, one of more than 1 cm, then a high degree of suspicion 6.5% for lung cancer, smokers are twice as many lung cancer groups, but also find many hair from family 3 family members suffering from lung cancer. 

 Ying-Huang Tsai note, preliminary studies have shown that for high-risk groups for CT screening helps early detection of lung cancer, lung cancer patients in Taiwan have 8 into a female, not male smokers into 3 groups, so he suggested that smoking as well as those who can have a family history of early screening, early detection of lesions, treatment, does not encourage everyone to screening, and healthy lifestyles are still far away from cancer prevention.