New lung cancer screening guidelines make millions more eligible for testing



The American Cancer Society is out with new screening guidelines for lung cancer, expanding its regular testing recommendations to nearly five million people. NBC’s Dr. Akshay Syal reports on how the new guidelines include smokers who quit 15 or more years ago.

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6 comments

  1. What exactly does it mean to be eligible?

  2. Great. Needs to be eligible for way more people. After covid most people have asthma symptoms. I know because I have it

  3. This is wonderful! It would've saved my dad. We found it at stage 4 after I'd already spread from his lungs through other parts of his body. He lived a year from the date of diagnosis with chemo and radiation. People, do whatever you can to just stop smoking. It's not worth your life. (Vaping isn't any better)

  4. I thought vaping was safe

  5. Yay U$A now we get to know we have cancer caused by corporations in a country with no public healthcare and we conveniently get go broke to big pharma and med companies