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About Half of Lung Cancer Patients with Medicare Don’t Receive the Appropriate Imaging Before Treatment

The leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States is lung cancer. According to a study published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine in January, roughly half of Medicare patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) do not receive the appropriate imaging before radiation treatment.  Research has shown that up to 72 percent of..

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