Claudia I. Henschke, MD, PhD

In this podcast ahead of the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting, we discuss CT screening for individuals with a high risk for lung cancer with Claudia I. Henschke, MD, PhD.

The authors begin their articleby presenting the current stateof affairs regarding lung cancerand the rationale as to why itwould seem to be an obvious candidateto benefit from a program ofearly diagnosis followed by earlytreatment. Briefly summarized, thedisease is the number one cancer killer,it is nearly uniformly fatal whendiagnosis is symptom-prompted, andit is highly curable when found in itsearly stage.