Description
The Early CDT Lung Cancer Test is a blood test to screen for lung cancer or recurrence of lung cancer and may detect it before routine screening and imaging.
Every year around 48,500 people are diagnosed with lung cancer in the UK. It is one of the most common and serious types of cancer. Lung cancer starts in the windpipe (trachea), the main airway (bronchus) or the lung tissue.
Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate and one of the worst five-year survival rates of all cancers. It is especially deadly because symptoms are non-specific. Therefore, by the time people seek medical attention, tumours have often already exceeded a critical size, and the cancer cells may have attacked the lymph nodes or metastasized (spread to other parts of the body). However, if lung cancer is detected early before it causes symptoms, the chances for curative treatment to work are good. When lung cancer is detected in the earliest stages, the five-year survival rate can be as high as 90%.
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