New York Times
24 April 2008
Philip M. Boffey
Most victims on lung cancer usually die within the next few years. A new screening program claims to reduce the amount of deaths caused by lung cancer through early diagnosis. Weill Cornell Medical College researchers believe they can prevent 80% of deaths through a spiral CT scan, which leaves many disbelievers. In doing a spiral CT scan, the research team found 484 patients with lung cancer and removed most of the tumors through surgery. They predict that 92% of them will be alive for the next ten years and found that the eight who did not remove their tumors died within the next five years. Other studies have found that this scan only works to detect small tumors for removal but cannot prove to reduce the amount of deaths due to lung cancer. This scan also leads to other surgeries, which can be costly and dangerous. Some might not want to face the risks for the small benefits.
This article proved very informative and seemed well researched. The author was credibly, citing many references, studies and foundations. The overall flow was good but sometimes hard to follow. It seemed to jump back and forth and use big words at times.
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This seems to be a very good article. It shows that you learned a lot about the topic by just reading the article so that proves that the author did a nice job explaining the information.
This is a very interesting article. It seems that the author put alot of research into it, and that he truly cared about the topic. I would say that the author made the article accessible to everyone so that people could be informed on this important issue.
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