Chicago, October 30, 2014—Patients at high-risk for developing lung cancer are more likely to receive low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening when their primary care provider is familiar with ...

Studies demonstrated the benefit of low-dose CT screening on lung cancer mortality, which led to updated screening recommendations in the US; however, results from European trials were lacking.

Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final decision regarding a national coverage determination (NCD)* that expands reimbursement eligibility for lung cancer ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with nearly 2 million fatalities per year, but these deaths could be reduced by a quarter with more targeted lung screening, argues a ...

Update, December 12: As a technical matter, commenter Laurie Fenton Ambrose is correct that CMS did not officially propose coverage with evidence development (CED), and this post has been edited to ...

Patients with primary lung cancer detected using low-dose computed tomography screening are at reduced risk of developing brain metastases after diagnosis, according to a study published in the ...

A retrospective case series study suggests that standardized guidelines for reporting and managing significant incidental findings (SIFs) in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening ...

CHICAGO -- The diagnosis of early-stage lung cancer with low-dose CT (LDCT) screening led to high rates of lung cancer-specific survival two decades later, according to I-ELCAP data. The 20-year lung ...

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans is crucial because it can detect cancer early, when it is still curable, and significantly reduce deaths in highrisk people such as longterm smokers. For ...

A study presented today by researchers with the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan confirmed the effectiveness of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening in a pre-defined, never-smoker, ...

The overdiagonsis identified in the current study also led to overtreatment in this population, authors found. Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening of mostly nonsmoking Asian women was associated with ...