American Cancer Society Releases Updated Lung Cancer Screening Guideline

The American Cancer Society has released an update of its lung cancer screening guideline to help reduce the number of people dying from the disease due to smoking history. The new guideline recommends yearly screening for lung cancer for people aged 50 to 80 years old who smoke or formerly smoked and have a 20-year or greater pack-year history. The recommended annual screening test for lung cancer is a low-dose computed tomography scan (also called a low-dose CT scan, or LDCT). The guideline, last updated in 2013, is published in the ACS flagship journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. For more information on the updated guideline, view the recording of the recent webinar hosted by the American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable. The roundtable will host its annual meeting in Washington, DC, on December 4–5.