You could save your life with a lung cancer screening
Friday, July 26, 2024
Low-dose CT scan
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force revised lung cancer screening recommendations in March 2021 to include people who meet all the following requirements:
• Have a 20-cigarette pack-year or more history.
A pack-year is smoking an average of one pack of cigarettes per day for one year. For example, a person could have a 20 pack-year history by smoking one pack a day for 20 years or two packs a day for 10 years.
• Smoke now or have quit within the past 15 years.
• Are between 50 and 80 years old.
• Have no signs or symptoms of lung cancer.
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