Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines

Full text of current ACS recommendations (and rationale) about informed/shared decision-making to determine whether to initiate lung cancer screening is available here.

The American Cancer Society recommends annual lung cancer screening with a low-dose CT scan (LDCT) for certain people at higher risk for lung cancer who meet the following conditions:

• Are aged 55 to 74 years and in fairly good health, and
• Currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years, and
• Have at least a 30-pack-year smoking history, and
• Receive smoking cessation counseling if they are current smokers, and
• Have been involved in informed/shared decision making about the benefits, limitations, and harms of screening with LDCT scans, and
• Have access to a high-volume, high quality lung cancer screening and treatment center.