Lung Cancer

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Among current smokers, 71% had never spoken a clinician about screening and among those who had quit, 75% had never had a conversation.

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Simple criteria for lung cancer screening identified more people who would highly benefit, including more from racial/ethnic minority groups.

Researchers observed substantial disparities in burden by cancer type, age group, countries/territories, and a country's level of Human Development Index.

Over 4 million cancer deaths have been reverted since 1991, but new cancer cases are estimated to reach over 2 million, according to new data from an annual American Cancer Society report.

After early natural (vs surgical) menopause, women who continued to smoke had 4.5-fold greater risk of lung cancer and related mortality, report study authors.

CHEST 2021: Among >7000 veterans diagnosed with lung cancer and scheduled for surgery, seeing a primary care doctor was linked to pre-operative quitting.

New research presented at the virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress showed "social smokers" are more than twice as likely to die of lung disease vs non-smokers.

The proposed recommendations will allow more women and black patients to be eligible for lung cancer screening.