Silver Book Fact
Low dose CT screening for lung cancer costs less than $200 per person, and surgery for stage I lung cancer is less than 1/2 the cost of late-stage treatment.
International Early Lung Cancer Action Program Investigators. Survival of Patients with Stage I Lung Cancer Detected on CT Screening. NEJM. October 2006; 355(17): 1763-71. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/355/17/1763