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FEATURE

Making progress
against the world's
deadliest cancer
By ROBERT KRUKLITIS, MD,
PHD, MBA, FCCP

10 Lehigh County Health & Medicine | SPRING 2020

T

he five-year survival rate for lung
cancer is now 21.7%, up from
17.2% a decade ago. This is a
dramatic 26% improvement over
the past 10 years* ... and, along with declines in tobacco use, supports the lifesaving
potential of lung cancer screening, which
finds the disease at an early stage when it's
more curable.
Lung cancer remains the leading cause
of cancer deaths among both women and
men, according to the American Cancer
Society, even though the number of new lung
cancer cases is decreasing. That trend has
been attributed to the fact that more people
are quitting smoking. The other impact has
been medical technology's contribution to



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