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Temple Health now screening for both lung cancer and COPD with one quick test

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Long-time smokers and former smokers are eligible to be screened every year for lung cancer. But Temple Health says adding a simple test could tell doctors so much more.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 8:34PMPHILADELPHIA --But Temple Health says adding a simple test could tell doctors so much more.Yet only about 6% of the eligible smokers and former smokers get it."A patient may get it once. And then sometimes they kind of trickle off and then get there, following up in 4 years, 5 years," says Melissa Liverpool, RN, a nurse navigator with the Temple Healthy Chest Initiative.

She says the scans take a snapshot of internal organs that can pick up problems ranging from thyroid nodules to osteoporosis. Temple also adds a lung function test to screen for COPD by measuring how well the lungs are working.

 

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