November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, a part of Kentucky One Health, is urging Kentuckians to check into a screening that could save their lives. Kentucky leads the nation in lung cancer rates, killing more Kentuckians that the next eight most common cancers combiner. Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer with symptoms, a cough and chest pains, often happening after the disease is advanced. A C-T scan can find it early enough to greatly improve survival. Doctor Goetz Kloecker, director of thoracic oncology at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, says pack a day smokes for thirty years who quit less than fifteen years ago and are between the ages of fifty-five and eighty should get annual scans.