Primary Care

Cancer Screening

Questions discussed in this category

Do you ever consider continuing annual LDCT chest for lung cancer screening in patients who quit smoking more than 15 years ago?

Unlike USPTF and CMS guidelines, NCCN and ACS do not have a criterion for <15 years since quit

2 Answers available

Do you perform routine interval lung cancer screening in non-smokers who are 1st degree relatives of patients with non-smoking related lung cancers with known EGFR mutations?

3 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

The New England journal of medicine, 2011-08-04

Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening.

Nature reviews. Cancer, 2007-10

Lung cancer in never smokers--a different disease.

N. Engl. J. Med., 2020 Jan 29

Reduced Lung-Cancer Mortality with Volume CT Screening in a Randomized Trial.

The Lancet regional health. Europe, 2021 Sep 11

Lung cancer mortality reduction by LDCT screening: UKLS randomised trial results and international meta-analysis.

Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 2018 Nov 13

Role of Low-Dose Computerized Tomography in Lung Cancer Screening among Never-Smokers.

Translational lung cancer research, 2020 Feb

Low-dose CT lung cancer screening in never-smokers and smokers: results of an eight-year observational study.

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