Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Detecting this disease in its early stages significantly improves survival rates, making low-dose CT screening an essential component in the fight against lung cancer. Recent studies, particularly from Asia, have sparked a debate on whether these benefits extend to non-smokers and those with minimal smoking histories.
However, according to an article published in the , there is currently insufficient evidence to support for those who never smoked with or without a of lung cancer. The article "Screening Low-Risk Individuals for Lung Cancer: The Need May Be Present, but the Evidence of Benefit Is Not," is written by a group of lung cancer researchers and public health professionals led by Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS, the Hillenbrand Professor of Thoracic Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.
C. Silvestri and his colleagues note that The Early Detection Program for Lung Cancer in Taiwan revealed that the cancer detection rate for those screened with low-radiation dose computed tomography was more than two-fold higher in light- or never-smokers with a family history of lung cancer compared with high-risk persons with more than 30 pack-years exposure and meeting U.S.
Preventative Services Task Force criteria. In addition, more than 90% of the cancers detected in those with a family history were at an early stage. On the basis of those findings, the Taiwan researchers concluded t.