The effectiveness of early detection is one of the universal truths in medicine. It is so effective that the U.S. Preventative Task Force recommends that patients get screened for colon cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer. Even when...
Lung Cancer
Current lung cancer screening recommendations
The importance of early lung cancer screening and treatment cannot be overstated. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 20% of all cancer deaths are due to lung cancer. And although lung cancer and breast cancer are diagnosed at the same rate, lung cancer...
Lung Cancer Screening Rates Still Abysmally Low
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...
Smokers Need Lung Cancer Screening
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 Saves Lives With Costs
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 Now Endorsed By USPSTF
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 CT Screening Could Prevent 12,000 Deaths
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...