{"id":18009,"date":"2021-04-14T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2021-04-14T08:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:26:58","slug":"early-screening-for-lung-cancer-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18009","title":{"rendered":"Early screening for lung cancer saves lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov)<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam Veteran Bobby Richardson can attest to the effectiveness of early screening for lung cancer. Last year, he found out that he had stage 1 lung cancer when he took part in a nationwide VA program to boost the number of Veterans screened for lung cancer. He then got treatment through a VA clinical trial.\u00a0 Continue reading the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/87288\/early-screening-lung-cancer-saves-lives\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov) Vietnam Veteran Bobby Richardson can attest to the effectiveness of early screening for lung cancer. Last year,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18010,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions\/18010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}