Characteristics of the Newly Eligible Population under Two Recent Updates of Lung Cancer Screening Recommendations.

ABSTRACT: The United States Preventive Services Task Force updated its lung cancer screening (LCS) recommendations in 2021, and the American Cancer Society (ACS) updated its LCS guidelines in 2023. Each update expanded screening eligibility criteria, thus increasing the total number of individuals eligible for LCS. However, it is not clear whether different population subgroups benefit equally from the recent updates of LCS recommendations in terms of becoming newly eligible. We identified 85,395 individuals who were between 50 and 80 years old, smoked cigarettes formerly or currently, and did not have a history of lung cancer from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey of 2022. We used descriptive analysis to illustrate the weighted proportions of the newly screening-eligible populat

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12129670 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature