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Lung cancer is responsible for over 89,000 deaths annually in the United States. In order to decrease this rate, early diagnosis, localization, and therapy must be undertaken. Early detection is available by sputum cytology. An early lesion may only be a few millimeters in extent and 100 micrometers thick. Such a small preinvasive lesion is not localizable by conventional radiography, computed tomography, or nuclear medicine. The lesion may be visually indistinguishable from normal bronchial mucosa variations under white light fiberoptic bronchoscopy.
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Doiron, D.R., Profio, A.E. (1980). Laser Fluorescence Bronchoscopy for Early Lung Cancer Localization. In: Pratesi, R., Sacchi, C.A. (eds) Lasers in Photomedicine and Photobiology. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38270-6_11
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