Reality check.

As this comprehensive contemporary review puts it, despite any ongoing debate, the survival benefit of low-dose CT-based lung cancer screening “is now an evidence based reality.” Some tips on how to maximize this survival benefit (i.e. select the highest risk cases) include looking at nodule doubling time rather than size at a single snapshot, using different scan intervals for different risk levels, and incorporating genetics susceptibilities and circulating biomarkers into the equation. | Oudkerk, Nat Rev Clin Oncol 2020