Other cancers that are relatively easy to spot on visual examination include skin cancer and melanomas. The pap smear for cervical cancer is another well-established, minimally invasive test that I recommend my patients do yearly. When we’re talking about cancers that develop inside the body, in our internal organs, things get trickier. We can’t see them directly, so we must rely on imaging technologies such as low-dose CT scans for lung cancer. These scans are currently recommended in smokers and former smokers, but (as always) I think they should be used more widely,
