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Pancoast tumor screening
Introduction
Screening
Screening
- There is insufficient evidence to recommend routine screening for Pancoast tumor.
- The current guidelines for screening of lung cancer that results in pancoast tumor is as follows:
- In 2013, a clinical practice guideline by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended screening for lung cancer among smokers and former smokers who are between 55 to 80 years old and who have smoked 30 pack-years or more and either continue to smoke or have quit within the past 15 years (grade B recommendation).[1]
- Clinical practice guidelines issued by the American College of Chest Physicians in 2013 recommend:[2][3][4]
- For smokers and former smokers who are age 55 to 74 and who have smoked for 30 pack-years or more and either continue to smoke or have quit within the past 15 years, it was suggest that annual screening with low dose computed tomography (LDCT) should be offered in settings that can deliver the comprehensive care provided to National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) participants.
References
References
- ā “http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf13/lungcan/lungcanfinalrs.htm”. Retrieved 31 December 2013. External link in
|title=(help) - ā Detterbeck FC, Mazzone PJ, Naidich DP, Bach PB (2013). “Screening for Lung Cancer: Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer, 3rd ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines”. Chest. 143 (5 Suppl): e78Sā92S. doi:10.1378/chest.12-2350. PMIDĀ 23649455. Summary in JournalWatch
- ā Midthun, David E. (2016). “Early detection of lung cancer”. F1000Research. 5: 739. doi:10.12688/f1000research.7313.1. ISSNĀ 2046-1402.
- ā Midthun, David E. (2011). “Screening for Lung Cancer”. Clinics in Chest Medicine. 32 (4): 659ā668. doi:10.1016/j.ccm.2011.08.014. ISSNĀ 0272-5231.
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