The News Lens
Date: 2018/03/21
By: Matt Fulco, Taiwan Business TOPICS Magazine

Photo Credit: AP/達志影像

An ongoing study suggests environmental factors in Taiwan are contributing to a rising number of cases in otherwise healthy non-smokers.

After four doctors at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) had suddenly collapsed on the job during the previous two years – with one of them failing to recover – the hospital in the second half of 2013 ordered all staff physicians 45 years of age and older to take a physical examination.

The comprehensive health checks included low-radiation computerized topography (CT) scans of the lungs. The results were chilling. Of 300 physicians tested, 12 (4 percent) were found to have a small lung nodule (less than 1 centimeter), which subsequent testing confirmed as lung carcinoma.    [FULL  STORY]