Study Proposes Overhaul of US Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines
A new analysis is calling for major changes to how the United States screens for lung cancer. Current rules, the study argues, leave out most people who eventually develop the disease. Researchers behind the study say the system used today is far too narrow and fails to capture the full range of Americans who end up at risk. The work, published in JAMA Network Open, examined nearly one thousand lung cancer cases treated at Northwestern Medicine over a five year span. Researchers set out to determine how many of those patients would have qualified for routine CT scans under the…

