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Improving lung cancer outcomes in Black communities will take more than lowering the screening age, experts say. Disparities are present in everything from the studies that inform when people should get checked to the availability of care in rural areas.
Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers. It grows quietly and is usually not detected until it has spread to other parts of the body.
During a routine visit to the Good Samaritan Clinic in Morganton, North Carolina, in 2018, Herbert Buff casually mentioned that he sometimes had trouble breathing.
Improving lung cancer outcomes in Black communities will take more than lowering the screening age, experts say.