accumulation of radiation over the years, maybe the cost of cat scans and that is really up for debate. jamie: what do you recommend to your patients. i spoke to the chief medical officer of the american cancer society about this around he s cautioning, okay, there is a survival advantage, we have looked at it for a long time and i absolutely screen my smokers with cat sans and i have don t for years and we do it at a medical center and is not overprescribed and he s worried about biopsies and, byryou coul have a heart attack going on and, it is all bowel tull about medicine, i have plenty of smokers, 1 in 5 americans are still smoking, i advise you to think of a screening cat scan, seriously and also ask about the downside. the only thing i would add is over diagnosis does not have to
scans and that is really up for debate. jamie: what do you recommend to your patients. i spoke to the chief medical officer of the american cancer society about this around he s cautioning, okay, there is a survival advantage, we have looked at it for a long time and i absolutely screen my smokers with cat sans and i have don t for years and we do it at a medical center and is not overprescribed and he s worried about biopsies and, byryou coul have a heart attack going on and, it is all bowel tull about medicine, i have plenty of smokers, 1 in 5 americans are still smoking, i advise you to think of a screening cat scan, seriously and also ask about the downside. the only thing i would add is over diagnosis does not have to be overtreatment. and, i think, with lung cancer