This Plain Language Summary of Publication from Future Oncology describes the research carried out by the United States Preventive Services Task Force where they reviewed how successful a type of scan called low dose computed tomography was in finding lung cancer in people who hadn’t shown any physical signs of it.

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The original article on which this Plain Language Summary of Publication is based is titled ‘Screening for Lung Cancer US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement’ and was published in the Jama Network. Read the original article here.