Cleveland County Cares Coordinator and cancer survivor Melinda McKnight is urging current and former smokers to get a Low-Dose CT scan (LDCT) to screen for lung cancer in this week’s episode of the Free Range Conversations podcast. McKnight credits the preventative screening for saving her life as she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023 and is now in remission. She has since become an advocate for the LDCT, sharing her story and early detection in testimony videos for CARTI shared throughout their facilities across Arkansas, and on social media platforms. McKnight, a former smoker who also lost her mother to lung cancer that year, began having yearly screenings in 2015, during which one scan found a 3 mm. nodule. That nodule remained the same for several years according to McKnight, until 2023 when it started growing.

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