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 procedure that uses X-rays to produce a series of images at different angles, ...

Alternative criteria for lung cancer screening identified high-benefit groups who were not covered by U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) criteria, according to results based on model ...

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

Among 997 patients with lung cancer, only 35.1% met USPSTF screening criteria, while universal age-based screening (40-85 ...

In a study of nearly 1,000 consecutive patients treated for lung cancer at Northwestern Medicine, researchers discovered only ...

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cancer screening and smoking cessation programs could prevent tens of thousands of deaths, but systemic barriers and outdated criteria leave high-risk communities behind.

In this study, researchers estimated results for 100% lung cancer screening uptake by all unscreened but screening-eligible individuals.

Associations were seen for lack of health insurance coverage, being a rural resident, and not having a clinician with decreased odds of screening. HealthDay News — Increased lung cancer screening ...

Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and ...

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