Jump to full article: Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise, 2008-06-25
Author: LORA HINES The Press-Enterprise
Intro: As many as 200 Inland volunteers could help medical researchers identify whether early screening helps cut lung-cancer risk among people with high exposure to secondhand smoke, such as flight attendants and restaurant workers.
Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage is one of more than 50 medical facilities worldwide involved in a first-ever study of nonsmokers who either have lived with smokers or worked in fields with high levels of secondhand smoke exposure.
Researchers hope the study, which will last at least five years, will convince insurance companies and policymakers that early detection of lung cancer and other diseases in people exposed to secondhand smoke could save lives. . . .
The study, headed by New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, is funded by an $8.7 million grant from the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute in Miami, Fla. . . .
Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College did not return phone calls to discuss the secondhand smoke study.
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