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Podcast: The American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative Podcast
Episode: ALCSI Podcast: Liz Brown
Description: On this ALCSI podcast, Ms. Liz Brown talks about her personal journey of being diagnosed with cancer as a child in 1989 and being diagnosed with radiation induced adenocarcinoma almost 30 years after receiving radiation therapy for her childhood cancer. Liz has documented her experiences using social media and her own blog in order to help spread awareness of late effects and further cancers.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the world. Large clinical trials have shown that lung cancer screening through low-dose computed tomography (CT) reduces lung cancer mortality by up to 33%. In fact, if every...