Pack-Year Smoking History: An Inadequate and Biased Measure to Determine Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility

CONCLUSION: Use of a 20-year smoking duration cutoff instead of a 20-pack-year cutoff greatly increases the proportion of patients with lung cancer who would qualify for screening and eliminates the racial disparity in screening eligibility between Black versus White individuals; smoking duration has the added benefit of being easier to calculate and being a more precise assessment of smoking exposure compared with pack-year smoking history.PMID:38537159 | DOI:10.1200/JCO.23.01780

Source: Clinical Lung Cancer - March 27, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Alexandra L Potter Nuo N Xu Priyanka Senthil Deepti Srinivasan Hang Lee G Scott Gazelle Lydia Chelala Wei Zheng Florian J Fintelmann Lecia V Sequist Jessica Donington Julie R Palmer Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang Source Type: research