Lung cancer screening for smokers moves toward standard of care
When a massive clinical trial about lung cancer screening shows a benefit to current and former smokers, why can it take so long to become accessible for most people?
A draft recommendation by a federal task force in favor of using low-dose CT scans to screen past and current heavy smokers for lung cancer provides insight about the time lag.
The recommendation says that low-dose spiral CT lung cancer screening is only appropriate...
