Current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening guidelines miss about two-thirds of patients with ...
Two modeling studies suggest that making more people eligible for lung cancer screening would prevent tens of thousands of ...
Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a procedure that uses X-rays to produce a series of images at different angles, ...
The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of ...
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cancer screening and smoking cessation programs could prevent tens of thousands of deaths, but systemic barriers and outdated criteria leave high-risk communities behind.
Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for required ...
Researchers reveal that current lung cancer screening guidelines miss 65% of patients, and call for universal age-based ...
In this study, researchers estimated results for 100% lung cancer screening uptake by all unscreened but screening-eligible individuals.
Reverting to age-based screening starting at age 40 could detect over 90% of malignancies ...
A new study shows that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force screening criteria for lung cancer exclude at-risk patients.