Can early detection lead to tobacco cessation?
Weill Medical College May 19, 2004 A new screening technology that could detect lung cancer much earlier than ever before has been funded through matching grants of $1.8 million from the American Legacy Foundation and the U.K.’s Medicsight Foundation. Weill Medical College of Cornell University will conduct the research. The donation will support a 4000-patient study whose goal is to demonstrate that CT screening for lung cancer can be effectively linked to smoking-cessation programs to enhance the motivation for people to stop smoking. The study, which will begin in June, will use unique advanced image analysis software. “We want to make screening programs an economic and life-saving reality,” said Dr. Claudia Henschke, the study’s principal investigator and one of the world’s leading authorities on CT screening for lung cancer. “The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) is proving that CT screening is an effective tool for early diagnosis of lung cancer. This newly
