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(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

CT scans are used to measure the spread of lung cancer in the rest of the body and gives an indication which possible treatments can be used to respond to the change in measurements.This makes both doctors and patients dependent on the results as means of stabilizing the disease. Read more.

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