Who should consider undergoing lung cancer screening?
Patients should discuss this issue with their personal physicians. Any patient who is at increased risk for developing lung cancer and is currently undergoing periodic screening chest x-rays should consider undergoing low-dose screening chest CT because of its superior ability to detect small pulmonary nodules. The high-risk patient group studied in the ELCAP study consisted of men and women over the age of 60 with at least 10 pack-years (one pack per day for 10 years).
