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Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans is so effective in detecting early lung cancers that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has updated and expanded its screening recommendation to now include those that meet all of the following criteria: Anyone over 50...
Although doctors continue to encourage patients to not smoke, it is an addiction that has afflicted millions of Americans. We now know that that even smokers who can't stop smoking can be saved from dying of lung cancer if diagnosed early. In 2006, medical research...
Under medical guidelines first introduced in 2012, physicians are supposed to discuss lung cancer screening in long-term smokers and ex-smokers. Unfortunately, less than 10% of doctors talk about screening with long-term smokers today. The low rate of patient-reported...
Despite lung cancer screening guidelines for smokers being issued in 2013, the rate of lung cancer screening is abysmally low with only about 3% of eligible smokers undergoing low-dose CT lung cancer screening. The USPTFS guidelines are for long term smokers with a...
Public health warnings have been effective in getting more Americans to stop smoking cigarettes, but lung cancer still kills more Americans than any other cancer. The percentage of Americans who smoke has decreased by half over about the last 30 years, from 30% in...
CT Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines could detect 54,900 more lung cancer cases during a 5 year period if covered by Medicare. Most cancers would be diagnosed at an earlier more treatable stage. In fact, the number of early stage cancer diagnoses would double from 15%...
Lung cancer screening in high-risk individuals is now also recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), following other professional organizations that have recommended the same. There had been controversy as to whether or not screening by...
Lung cancer screening of all current and former smokers with low-dose CT scanning would result in preventing 12,000 deaths in the United States each year. A study in Cancer reported that, compared with chest x-ray, CT screening would reduce lung cancer mortality by...
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