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FACT: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. It will take more lives this year than breast cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer combined. FACT: When detected and treated at an early stage, lung cancer survival rates increase from 2% to nearly 50%. (source: American Cancer Society) FACT: Vision Imaging of Kingston is the area’s only facility offering an innovative procedure that can help in the early detection of lung cancer. RapidScreen® is the first and only FDA-approved chest X-ray computer-aided detection (CAD) system specifically designed for the detection of early-stage lung cancer.
RapidScreen identifies areas in the lung that appear on routine chest X-rays and may be of concern. These areas are identified to the radiologist, who can then make recommendations to the patient and their physician for further testing. “The RapidScreen system helps us detect areas of concern within the lung that may previously not have been detected and could indicate early stage lung cancer,” said Vision Imaging’s Dr. Larry Braunstein. |
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