Screening for lung cancer
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Screening for lung cancer
Screening for lung cancer 
Screening smokers for lung cancer with low-dose CT decreases lung cancer mortality- Consequences of screening for lung cancer (NELSON)
- USPSTF recommends lung cancer screening for some smokers
- Uncertain risks and benefits of CT screening for lung cancer
- CT screening for lung cancer: more cancers detected, no mortality benefit (DANTE)
- Lower mortality with CT screening for lung cancer, but at very high cost
- Systematic review: lung cancer screening with CT decreases mortality but with significant harms
- Italian lung cancer screening findings consistent with US National Lung Screening Trial results (ITALUNG)
- Impact of low‐dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening on lung cancer‐related mortality
- Lung cancer screening is cost effective, but only if done correctly
- Low-dose CT screening of smokers decreases lung cancer deaths, but not overall mortality
- Annual screening chest x-ray does not reduce lung cancer mortality
- A direct-to-patient digital health intervention increases lung cancer screening completion rate
- High false-positive rate with lung cancer screening
- Spiral CT detects early lung cancer, but screening use is premature
- Lung cancer screening requires additional imaging in 40% of patients in real world
- Adherence to lung cancer screening is relatively poor after baseline scan
- After community lung cancer screening, rates of follow-up imaging are lower but the rates of some procedures are higher
- USPSTF 2021 recommends annual lung cancer screening based on shared decision-making in high-risk adults (B recommendation)
- Population screening for cancer
- One in five patients overdiagnosed with lung CA screening
- Lung cancers
- Lung cancer is infrequently found via screening, but follow-up imaging is common
- Screening for ovarian cancer with CA-125/ultrasound algorithm does not reduce mortality (UKCTOCS)
- Prostate cancer screening: no mortality benefit after 15 years of follow-up (PLCO)
- Low-dose CT screening decreases mortality in heavy smokers
- Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT does not affect smoking cessation rates
- Screening CA-125 and transvaginal ultrasound does not reduce ovarian cancer mortality
- Volume-based low-dose CT screening reduces lung cancer–specific mortality (NELSON)
- Prostate cancer screening: no mortality benefit after 13 years of follow-up (PLCO)
- High false positive rate in repeated, multimodal screening for cancers (PLCO)
- Lung cancer screening may increase the likelihood of smoking cessation