Surgical Treatment of Lung Cancer Found on X-Ray Survey

Abstract

A SYMPTOMATIC lung cancer, discoverable only by x-ray examination, has a higher rate of resectability and a greater potential curability than symptomatic cancer. Pessimism should not deter the search for silent cancer in mass chest surveys and individual chest screening. An effective use of x-ray examination by the medical profession combined with the intelligent co-operation of the public will uncover more lung cancers at the most favorable time for cure.ExperienceIn support of this contention, we present the experience of the Overholt Thoracic Clinic with 46 cases of silent lung cancer seen between December, 1947, and August, 1953. (This . . .