Screening for Lung Cancer

Abstract

The USPSTF recommends annual screening for lung cancer with LDCT in adults aged 50 to 80 years who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years. Screening should be discontinued once a person has not smoked for 15 years or develops a health problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery. (B recommendation) This recommendation replaces the 2013 USPSTF statement that recommended annual screening for lung cancer with LDCT in adults aged 55 to 80 years who have a 30 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years.

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Affiliated Institutions

• Tufts University US
• University of Missouri US
• Harvard University US
• Mayo Clinic US
• University of Pittsburgh US
• University of California, Los Angeles US
• Feinstein Institute for Medical Research US
• University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School US
• Pacific Health Research and Education Institute US
• University of Virginia US
• Stanford University US
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa US
• University of Alabama at Birmingham US
• Honolulu University US
• Virginia Commonwealth University US
• New York University US
• George Mason University US
• Northwell Health US
• Oregon Health & Science University US
• University of California, San Francisco US
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill US
• University of Hawaii System US

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