Bringing Lung Cancer Screening to Rural Minnesota

This article was originally published by The Daily Yonder.

A new research project in Minnesota hopes to save lives in rural parts of the state by increasing the number of people who recommend lung screening.

Getting to people in rural parts of the state may come down to getting more people in a rural doctor’s office to recommend lung cancer screening to patients, according to Dr. Abbie Begnaud of the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota, who is working with the Minnesota Cancer Clinical Trials Network to increase lung cancer screening across the state.

“Anybody with lungs can get lung cancer, and, when found early, lung cancer survival rates can reach 80% to 90%,” Begnaud told the Daily Yonder. “The pr...