Thursday, May 17, 2018

Too Few Smokers Get Lifesaving Lung Cancer Tests

Still, guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in 2013 say smokers between the ages of 55 and 80 -- whose habit amounts to a pack-a-day for 30 years and otherwise show no symptoms of disease -- should get new low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening.



From: https://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20180516/too-few-smokers-get-lifesaving-lung-cancer-tests?src=RSS_PUBLIC

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