You see a 50-year-old woman for the first time in your office. She tells you she’s still smoking a pack per day. She’s trying to cut down, but it’s hard. For the past few years she’s had a cough each winter and can’t walk the stairs to her second floor apartment without getting winded. For… Read More…
The National Lung Screening Trial investigators report that persons undergoing three annual screening examinations with low-dose computed tomography had a 20% reduction in lung-cancer mortality as compared with those screened with annual chest radiography. The Original Article and accompanying editorial are available on NEJM.org. Even though the rate of heavy smoking continues to decline in… Read More…
A 65 year-old man comes to your office. Let’s call him Joe. He is former smoker, but quit 10 years ago after smoking one pack daily for 35 years. He has recently remarried, has two young children, and is worried about his risk for lung cancer. He saw on the news that CT scans are… Read More…
