Changes to lung cancer screening guidelines labroots.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from labroots.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nationally, cancer screenings dropped anywhere from 86% to 94% during the pandemic. A woman in Fort Myers we spoke to says catching cancer early could save your life because it saved hers. Sharon Pollock is a survivor of colon cancer, and her husband’s actions might have saved her life. “My husband kind of got on […]
Experts Recommend Shared Patient - Doctor Decision-making Prior to Lung Cancer Screening itnonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from itnonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Comprehensive review shows benefits and harms of screening for lung cancer
A comprehensive review by University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues of hundreds of publications, incorporating more than two dozen articles on prevention screening for lung cancer with low-dose spiral computed tomography (LDCT), shows there are both benefits and harms from screening. The review is published in
JAMA on March 9, 2021.
The results of the decadelong National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) showed that LDCT could detect lung cancer better than conventional X-rays in current or previous heavy smokers. Based on those results, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) initially recommended low-dose CT screening for people ages 55 to 80 with a 30 pack-year smoking history. Subsequently, other screening trial results have been published, including a European trial called NELSON, the next-largest study to the NLST. NELSON also found a reduction in deaths due to lung cancer b
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