“Rush would have lived if he had screened two or three years ago.”
Citation? Link? Are you an oncologist?
Stage 1 lung cancer is highly curable.
Cancers typically begin as a small mass of ‘pre cancerous lesions’. These cells aren’t cancerous but their DNA is majorly messed up and over time will quite possibly become cancerous. It doesn’t happen overnight. The process (called “oncogenesis”) can take many years. During a screening they will show up in a low powered x-ray as a “suspicious spot”. Doc will order a biopsy where a small sample is collected from the spot and sent to a pathologist for examination. If it turns out precancerous, or even early stage (stage 1) it’s surgically removed - and that would be the end of the story — with periodic follow ups with the doctor. If Rush had done that several years before he started coughing up blood in Jan 2020, especially knowing that he belonged in a high risk group, he would still be sitting behind the Golden EIB mic today.