By Placing a short bore 1.5T MRI in Lake City Community Hospital, formerly used by the hospital system as a "feeder" to a distant larger hospital, high-field MRI is now close to home for patients and a new profit center for the hospital.

An article from the American Journal of Roentgenology citing research from the international Early Lung Screening Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) stated that eighty percent of lung cancers caught early with CT screening can enable patients to live for at least ten years.

Radiation induced lung cancer is cited as one CT barrier to acceptance. But the biggest negative is false positives from chest CT screenings that create the need for a high number of subsequent unnecessary biopsies. Follow-up procedures on the false positive CT create patient anxiety, in addition to added expense and loss of productivity.

The article concluded that physicians expect CT screenings to increase due to publicity from I-ELCAP results, but that their duty must be to rely the risks as well as the potential rewards.

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