While breast cancer and colon cancer screenings have become commonplace throughout the years, lung cancer screenings have continued to remain low, with only 18.7% of eligible people in the U.S. getting screened, according to 2025 data from the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n
Pianpian Cao, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Public Health, is looking for screening methods to reduce lung cancer mortality while also investigating interventions to reduce overall lung cancer incidence. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[2401,263,425,2399,2400,1566,2398,240],"class_list":["post-45566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-health","category-research","tag-cancer-intervention-and-surveillance-modeling-network","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-public-health","tag-lung-cancer","tag-lung-cancer-screening","tag-national-cancer-institute","tag-pianpian-cao","tag-purdue-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n