CHI Memorial mobile lung CT coach to visit Catoosa, Walker counties
CHI Memorial’s mobile lung CT coach will be at CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates-ringgold on Thursday, Aug. 8, and at CHI Memorial Family Practice Associateslafayette on Monday, Aug. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days.
CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates-ringgold is at CHI Memorial Parkway, 4700 Battlefield Parkway, Suite 200, Ringgold. CHI Memorial Family Practice Associates-lafayette is at 611 East Villanow St., Lafayette.
Lung cancer screening is a test to look for signs of lung cancer in otherwise healthy people. The low-dose CT scan shows a 3-D image of your lungs that is clearer and more detailed than regular x-rays, allowing doctors to diagnose lung cancer at its earliest stage, before there are any symptoms. This is when lung cancer is most curable. The whole process takes less than ten minutes and there is no need to do anything special to prepare for the screening.
The low-dose CT lung cancer scan has been shown to improve survival by 20 percent according to The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Factors that put you at high risk of developing lung cancer include: age 50 or greater; smoking history; family history of cancer; exposure to cancer causing agents (asbestos, diesel fumes, Radon, coal smoke, soot, etc.)
Private insurance companies cover lung cancer screening for high-risk individuals. Medicare and Medicaid also cover lung cancer screening. Grant funds are available for eligible uninsured and under-insured people to have the low-dose lung CT screening.
If you are getting calls from people saying you called them and asking why or being mad at you for making spam calls to their phone, most likely your phone was not hacked.
Spammers (which I am including vishers as part) can spoof what number that phone calls come from. These are calls that tell you that you have a credit problem, extended car warranties, medical insurance deals, etc. They usually have just picked a local number to appear call come from and on caller ID the spoofed number appears. Ironically, they use the spoofed number to call itself sometimes. For instance, I have gotten these calls and it shows my number as from. When people call you asking why you called or mad about spam, they will not understand spoofing.
There are a few times where the phone is hacked, and the calls are placed through your phone. This is easy to determine by looking at your phone log and see if there are outgoing calls you do not recognize.
Congress and the FCC and the FTC and phone companies supposedly have ways to stop these spoofed calls (and most spam calls) and are working on it. Up until very recently it was illegal to make
the spoofed calls from within the USA to USA, but they had never made illegal to do the calls from out of the USA to the USA. That should help in enforcement. In addition, there are to be technical tools used in near future to block all these. The major point not enabling those laws now is how long to allow the phone companies to implement the technology before it is enforced that they must. Most if not all of us (except the spammers) would just as soon it be mandatory enforced starting last week.
Hopefully this is a problem they will successfully combat and, in a few years, someone finding this article will not understand what the problem was.