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. 2022 Feb;161(2):586-589.
doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.07.030. Epub 2021 Jul 21.

Lung Cancer Screening Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stacey A Fedewa  1 , Priti Bandi  2 , Robert A Smith  3 , Gerard A Silvestri  4 , Ahmedin Jemal  2
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Lung Cancer Screening Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stacey A Fedewa et al. Chest. 2022 Feb.
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Lung cancer screening rates in 2020 and changes in lung cancer screening rates between 2020 vs 2019 among eligible adults by state. The term “eligible adults” was defined according to 2013 United States Preventive Services Task Force criteria: people who were 55 to 80 years old who currently or formerly smoked cigarettes and quit within the past 15 years, with ≥30 pack-year smoking history. The number of lung cancer screenings was obtained from the American College of Radiology’s Lung Cancer Screening Registry’s 2019 and 2020 Reports. The 2019 Census estimates were used to compute the population of adults who were 55 to 80 years old. The probability that an adult smoked was computed with 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and 2015 National Health Interview Survey Data, with a method described elsewhere. Significant changes in screening were determined by screening rate ratio (95% CI) that did not include the null (one). CIs were computed with bootstrap sampling with 1,000 replicates and accounted for self-reported variation in smoking behavior. Changes in lung cancer screening rates are not shown for Washington DC or Wyoming because the number of lung cancer screenings in 2019 and 2020 were not available due to American College of Radiology’s suppression criteria.
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