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Strong Economic Case for Implementing LDCT Screening for Lung Cancer

This factsheet demonstrates how lung cancer is the costliest cancer globally, making investment in LDCT screening economically justified.

Strong economic case
Topic
Lung Cancer
Languages
English
Audience
Health professionals

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Reducing Deaths from Lung Cancer is Essential to Strengthening Overall Cancer Control

This factsheet demonstrates lung cancer's outsized share of global cancer deaths, and how screening dramatically improves survival outcomes compared with unscreened populations.

Reducing deaths

Screening Creates Opportunities to Detect Lung Cancer Earlier

This factsheet shows how LDCT screening meets key public health screening criteria and can shift lung cancer from a late-diagnosed, often fatal disease to one detected early and treated effectively.

Opportunities to detect earlier