Expanded lung cancer screening and smoking cessation programs could prevent tens of thousands of deaths, but systemic barriers and outdated criteria leave high-risk communities behind.

Two modeling studies suggest that making more people eligible for lung cancer screening would prevent tens of thousands of ...

If everyone eligible had a lung cancer screening, 62,000 lives would be saved over five years, a new study shows.

The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of ...

With 18.7% of eligible adults reporting being up to date on lung cancer screening in a national survey, this was estimated to prevent 24% (weighted n=14,970) of lung cancer deaths and gain 190,030 ...

Smokers and former smokers who are 50 to 80 years old should get lung cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). The new ACS guideline recommends yearly screening for lung ...

Nov 1 (Reuters) - New lung cancer screening guidelines issued by the American Cancer Society (ACS) on Wednesday call for annual testing with low‐dose computed tomography (CT) for anyone aged 50 to 80 ...

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and is the leading cause of death from cancer. If lung cancer is found early, when it is small and before it has spread, it is more ...

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a procedure that uses X-rays to produce a series of images at different angles, ...

A new program launched by UR Medicine primary care in 2022 has helped more than double lung screening rates. A recent study ...

Current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening guidelines miss about two-thirds of patients with ...

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a technique that uses X-rays to create detailed images of the lungs, has shown efficacy in diagnosing high-risk individuals, including older adults and smokers.