Reducing Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening: It's Not So Black and White

Affiliations

¹ Office of the Chief and Scientific Medical Officer, Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.

Editorial

Stacey A Fedewa et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 2;113(11):1447-1448.

doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa212.

¹ Office of the Chief and Scientific Medical Officer, Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.

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Using Prediction Models to Reduce Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Draft 2020 USPSTF Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines.
Landy R, Young CD, Skarzynski M, Cheung LC, Berg CD, Rivera MP, Robbins HA, Chaturvedi AK, Katki HA. Landy R, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021 Nov 2;113(11):1590-1594. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa211. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021. PMID: 33399825 Free PMC article.

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