Fred Hutch study finds nearly half of people with ‘positive’ lung cancer screening CTs had delays in their follow-up, advancing disease in some.
For the last 10 years, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has advised that adults between the ages of 50 and 80 who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke (or have quit within the past 15 years) should receive a low-dose computed tomography (CT) every year to check for lung cancer.
Putting these recommendations into practice has been challenging, though, per new research by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
