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Screening non-smokers for lung cancer just as important & effective, finds Taiwan study
Study by National Taiwan University College of Medicine which screened never-smokers based on family history, other risk factors identified a high baseline prevalence of lung cancer.
Chinmay Haridas 7 March, 2021 10:00 am IST
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Nagpur: Lung cancer in ‘never-smokers’ or people who have never smoked is a rising threat, and a new study from Taiwan has emphasised the importance of screening among certain risk groups to identify the disease early.
According to researchers from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening currently the only recommended test for lung cancer screening may be “feasible” in never-smokers exposed to certain risk factors, such as a family history of lung cancer and exposure to second-hand smoke.
Drugs that can postpone or prevent the onset of debilitating diseases could enhance longevity and provide enormous societal benefits, geroscientists say.
Her features were feminine to a fault and of perfect symmetry. Short, dark brown hair, with kind of a Mohawk frill atop, delicate fingers, straight as an arrow, and the cutest curly tongue I had ever seen.
What amazed me most was that she was in the room at all when I arrived and that within ten seconds Ellen handed her to me with the most loving casualness, and apparent utter confidence, that the baby was in good hands. To have that little baby stretched out on my right forearm, with her head resting firmly in the cupped palm of my left hand, was like a miracle. No time to worry if I remembered how to hold a baby, no less a newborn. There she was, my first grandchild, my first granddaughter, in my arms, no more than a few hours old. No one even hinted at taking her back. It was hard to believe. What a coup.
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Environmental educator and activist Sarah Michler met film director Henry-Alex Rubin when she was working as a production assistant in 2014. “I helped produce commercials and PSAs he directed, and then coproduced the movie
Semper Fi, which he wrote,” Sarah recalls. “I fell out of love with production, but I fell in love with Henry!”