The life-changing promise of lung cancer screening

Debi Lascelle watched her father die from lung cancer, just months after being diagnosed. She knows first-hand how devastating the deadliest cancer can be — especially when it is diagnosed late, which it often is.
That is why the 60-year-old Ottawa woman agreed to take part in a study looking at the benefits of lung cancer screening for people at high risk. The aim is to catch the cancer early while more, and more successful, treatment options are available.
The study, she says, saved her