Lung cancer: very high death rate with HIV, huge reduction possible with CT screening for early diagnosis.

Lung cancer has a high death rate, especially with HIV in one group of patients studied recently. Researchers are finding that most of the fatalities are due to late diagnosis; as many as 80% of the deaths from lung cancer in the general population might be prevented by CT screening to find the tumors early. The patients with HIV were often relatively healthy, so doctors did not suspect that they had cancer.