Saving lives for the cost of an annual CT scan

Typical appearance of an early stage lung cancer (the white object in the left black field) detected by screening with a low dose CT scan.

This sounds alarmist, but the facts don’t lie. The National Cancer Registry, published in Oct 2016 for the period of 2007-2011, revealed that over 100,000 cancers were diagnosed in Malaysia during that time. Of these, 10,608 were new cases of lung cancer.

This means that on average, every year, 2,121 Malaysians were diagnosed with lung cancer during that time.