November is lung cancer awareness month, and this kind of cancer is on the rise and is deadly.
According to the American Cancer Society, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.
Dr. Houssam Oueini implemented the lung cancer screening program at Houston Methodist Baytown to help bring that statistic down.“We look at these scans to make sure we don’t miss any precursors or early cancer,” Dr. Oueini said. “The majority of the time these are not cancer, but our job as physicians is to try to weed these out and make sure we don’t miss the ones that are going to become cancer.”“I worked out. I always worked out. I’m pretty healthy, I thought.
“They’re trying to fix what you came in for right then, so sometimes they were missed,” Scheffield said this program plans to change that.Now, she’ll be monitored for two years, but doesn’t need radiation or chemo. “It would have progressed to stage two, three, it would’ve gotten worse,” Ritter said. “So, I’m very lucky.”
Houston Methodist said they’re currently expanding the program to the west hospital in Katy and eventually plan to have it at all of their campuses.
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