August 19, 2018 10:43 PM
Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman is one of 65,000 people every year who develop head and neck cancer.
He made the announcement last week. Coleman's doctors said his cancer is a recurrence of the cancer they found on his tonsils in 2015.
But even after surgery, chemotherapy radiation and being told they are cancer-free, between 10 and 20 percent of patients will have a recurrence, often in the lung.
KSTP medical expert Dr. Archelle Georgiou looked deeper at primary lung cancer -- cancer that starts in the lung.
To find out if you should consider being screened for lung cancer, click here.
Watch the video above for the full story.
Dr. Archelle Georgiou
Updated: August 19, 2018 10:43 PM
Created: August 19, 2018 09:01 PM
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