This brought tears to my eyes. I know exactly what he is talking about, and he described it better than I ever could. I saw a talk by someone from Stanford Ho

This brought tears to my eyes. I know exactly what he is talking about, and he described it better than I ever could. I saw a talk by someone from Stanford Hospital on diagnosing lung cancer a few weeks ago and the statistics are dismal. Most people have nodules in their lungs that will show up as false positives on scans. The window where a possible tumor on a scan is large enough that it's worth risking a biopsy and where you catch the tumor early enough is very small. By the time a patient has symptoms, it is too late, the cancer has already metastasized and spread to other parts of the body. Across all forms of lung cancer, median survival time is less than seven months after diagnosis.