Doctors Urge Increased Screening For Previously Treated Lung Cancer Patients, Especially Young Women

CHICAGO -- Physicians at the Karmanos Cancer Institute today presented the conclusions of their study, Risk of Second Lung Cancer in Patients with Previously Treated Lung Cancer: Analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER) Registry at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. Karmanos' Praveen Sivakumaran, M.D., along with fellow doctors Shirish Gadgeel, M.D., Ann Schwartz, Ph.D., Fawn Vigneau, JD, MPH, Khairul Islam, Ph.D. and Antoinette Wozniak, M.D., conducted a retrospective analysis of lung cancer patients in the National Cancer Institute's SEER Registry. The SEER Program registries routinely collect data on patient demographics, primary tumor site, tumor morphol...