Here are three things to know.
- According to Chris Grottenhaler, CEO of True Health Diagnostics, more than 480,000 smoking-related deaths occur in the U.S. every year.
- More than 16 percent of adults in the U.S. are active smokers and more than 21 percent are ex-smokers. Almost 80 percent of lung cancers cases are diagnosed after its spread to other organs, according to a news release.
- True Health Diagnostics’ EarlyCDT-Lung blood test detects up to seven different autoantibodies in a patient’s blood, which can be indicators of the presence of cancer before a tumor is even detectable.
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