Assessing how lung cancer screening guidelines contribute to racial disparities in screening access.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States (U.S.), with non-White people who smoke often bearing the burden of the highest rate of LC mortality. This is often due to later stage diagnoses, leading to poor prognosis and outcomes. We assess here how the eligibility criteria for LC screening set by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) could contribute to racial disparities in screening access.

Methods

This paper analyzes data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), an annual survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that gathers health and nutrition data from a representative sample of the U.S. popula

SUBMITTER: Ivic-Pavlicic T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10261853 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature