Real-world Clinical Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening —Evaluating Processes to Improve Screening Guidelines-Concordance

ConclusionAdherence to LCS guidelines requires eligibility confirmation procedures. Among those with a positive baseline S-LDCT, comorbidity burden and lung cancer detection rates were notably higher than in NLST, suggesting that the study of long-term outcomes in patients undergoing LCS in real-world clinical settings is warranted.

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Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - January 22, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research