Screening for Lung Cancer: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report - Executive Summary

CONCLUSIONS: Evidence suggests that low-dose CT screening for lung cancer can result in a favorable balance of benefit and harms. The selection of screen-eligible individuals, the quality of imaging and image interpretation, the management of screen detected findings, and the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions, can impact this balance.PMID:34270965 | DOI:10.1016/j.chest.2021.07.003

Source: Chest - July 16, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Peter J Mazzone Gerard A Silvestri Lesley H Souter Tanner J Caverly Jeffrey P Kanne Hormuzd A Katki Renda Soylemez Wiener Frank C Detterbeck Source Type: research