HELPING YOU LIVE HEALTHY NEW GUIDELINES RECENTLY CAME OUT REDUCING THE AGE FOR LUNG
CANCER SCREENINGS FROM
55 TO 50 WHICH MEANS OUT
15 MILLION MORE PEOPLE QUALIFY
FOR YEARLY SCANS JOINING ME NOW
IS
DAMI. PALMA KNOWLEDGE IS FROM
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DOCTOR, THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US
THIS MORNING. THANK YOU FOR
HAVING
ME HERE WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT
TO GET LUNG CANCER SCREENINGS
IF YOU HAVE BEEN A SMOKER.
>> I DON’T KNOW IF A LOT OF
PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS BUT LUNG
CANCER KILLS MORE PEOPLE.
AND PROSTATE TOGETHER. AND UNFORTUNATELY MUSTER FOR LUNG CANCER DIAGNOSED AT LATER
STAGE WHERE
THERE’S NOT A WHOLE LOT TO READ
OF TREATMENT AT THAT POINT IN
EARLY STAGES. AND THAT’S WHERE
THE LUNG SCREENING COMES IN WE
CAN DIAGNOSE LUNG CANCER AT A
VERY EARLY AGE.
AND A LOT OF TIMES FOR PROVIDE
QUE CURATIVE TREATMENT. AND
THAT’S WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT
THAT WE ADHERE TO OUR NEW
GUIDELINES WHERE
EVERY SMOKER. IF YOUR CURRENT
SMOKE OR HAVE QUIT SMOKING IN
15 YEARS.
>> OR OR OR MORE. AGE OF 50 OR
MORE PLEASE TO GET A SCREENING
CAT SCAN. IT’S VERY SIMPLE.
IT’S A LOW DOSE SCREENING.
>> THE HOLD.
>> TEST BY ITSELF IS 10 TO 15
SECONDS THE WHOLE PROCEDURE
TAKES FEW MINUTES INSURANCE PAY
FOR THAT.
SO IT’S A SHORT PERIOD TIME
THAT’S WORTH IT IN THE END TO
DETECT THIS CANCER IF YOU DO
HAVE YES LIKE I SAID, I MEAN
NOT OF PEOPLE I’M NOT AWARE OF
THAT THAT.
MAJORITY OF THE LUNG CANCER
WILL BE DIAGNOSED WE DIAGNOSED
AT LATER STAGE. AND
UNFORTUNATELY, HALF OF THOSE
PEOPLE END UP DYING THE
FIRST YEAR.
>>JENNIFER READY: WHY IS THAT
IS THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE DO PUT
OFF THE SCREENINGS THAT THAT’S
WHY IT’S NOT DIAGNOSED UNTIL
LATER STAGES.
>> THE SCREENING. IT HAS BEEN
THERE, BUT IT HAS NOT TAKING
THE MOMENTUM LIKE. AMOUNT
GRAFFITI LIKE COLON SCREENING,
YOU KNOW, YOU DON’T MISS YOUR
MAMMOGRAM. BUT.
I HAVE NOT HAD A PATIENT WHO
COME IN AND ASK ME FOR A LONG
KICK
CANCER SCREENING. SO WHERE DOES
NOT THERE YOU KNOW LIKE WE HAVE
A BREAST CANCER MONTH, YOU
KNOW, BUT WE DON’T HAVE LUNG
CANCER AWARENESS MONTH, YOU
KNOW THAT
PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THAT YOU
KNOW SO I URGE ALL MY PATIENTS,
YOU KNOW THAT PLEASE YOU KNOW
IF YOU ARE IN THIS CATEGORY
WHICH IS CONSIDERED A HIGH-RISK
CATEGORY PLEASE GO ASK YOUR.
YOU KNOW PRACTICE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW INTERNIST, YOU KNOW TALK TO A FAMILY
MEMBER ENCOURAGE THEM TO GO
ALONG CANCER
SCREENING DONE.
>>JENNIFER READY: WHAT ARE SOME
OF THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF
LUNG CANCER.
LUNG CANCER IS A DEADLY
DISEASE, WHICH MEANS MANY GET
DIAGNOSED GET DIAGNOSED AT
A VERY LATE STAGE AND THE
SYMPTOMS ARE USUALLY IN THE
LATE STAGE,
YOU KNOW A LOT OF THIS IS
SYMPTOMS UNFORTUNATELY A VERY
NONSPECIFIC SYMPTOMS. COUGH,
SHORTNESS OF BREATH. IN SOME
CASES, THEY’LL BE COUGHING UP
BLOOD. BUT AGAIN YOU KNOW THESE
SYMPTOMS UNFORTUNATELY ARE
DIAGNOSED IN THE
LATER STAGES. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO HAVE SMOKED
20 PAC YEARS. SO 20 PAC IS
COUNTED. AND IF YOU SMOKE PACK
A DAY WHICH IS ABOUT 20
CIGARETTES A DAY FOR ABOUT A
YEAR THAT’S A PACK HISTORY.
SO IF YOU SMOKE PACK A DAY.
FOR 20 IS THIS A 20 PACK
HISTORY. BUT IF YOU SMOKE, 2
PACKS A DAY.
20 PAC IS SHE WILL BE IN 10
YEARS.
WHY HAVE THE GUIDELINES CHANGED
SINCE THE LAST RECOMMENDATION,
10 YEARS AGO. >> SO YOU KNOW SINCE THEN THIS THE AND OUR INITIAL GUIDELINES
CAME ABOUT.
IN THE FIRST BIG STUDY WAS
PUBLISHED 2011 THAT.
FIRST TIME YOU’D
REALIZE THAT LOOKING AT DOING A
LOW DOSE E T
CHEST. WE CAN HAVE 20%
REDUCTION IN MORTALITY. SINCE
THEN WE HAVE LOT OF DATA A
LOT OF. STATISTIC AN IN OUT
ANALYSIS THAT HAVE SHOWED THAT.
FOR PATIENTS AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN LATINO MEN. THEY TEND TO GET LUNG CANCER.
AT EARLIER AGE IN THE LOW PACK
SMOKING HISTORY. AND THAT’S WHY
WE DEVISE THE GUIDELINES
AND WITH THE NEW GUIDELINES,
YOU KNOW WE ESTIMATE ABOUT 16
TO 18 MILLION MORE.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR
LUNG CANCER SCREENING. AND TO
ISIS UP TWICE THE AMOUNT WOMEN,