Assessment of Lung Cancer Risk Among Smokers for Whom Annual Screening Is Not Recommended.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The US Preventive Services Task Force does not recommend annual lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for adults aged 50 to 80 years who are former smokers with 20 or more pack-years of smoking who quit 15 or more years ago or current smokers with less than 20 pack-years of smoking.

Objective

To determine the risk of lung cancer in older smokers for whom LDCT screening is not recommended.

Design, settings, and participants

This cohort study used the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) data sets obtained from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which also sponsored the study. The CHS enrolled 5888 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 years and older in the US from June 1989 to June 1993 and collected extensive baseline data

SUBMITTER: Faselis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9335253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature