{"id":8637,"date":"2025-11-25T23:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/lung-cancer-screening-criteria-study\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:04:17","slug":"lung-cancer-screening-criteria-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/lung-cancer-screening-criteria-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The hidden reason lung cancer screening is not working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: The hidden reason lung cancer screening is not working<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For years, federal policymakers have tweaked lung cancer screening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org\/uspstf\/recommendation\/lung-cancer-screening\">guidelines<\/a> as if the barrier to saving lives is a math problem. Add a few years to the eligibility age. Drop a few pack-years \u2014 a measure combining how much and how long someone has smoked. Remove a quit-time rule. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>But it was never really a math problem. A <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2025.46222\">new study in JAMA Network Open<\/a> makes clear what many of us in cancer prevention and control have been warning for over a decade: No amount of technical adjusting will fix a system built on stigma.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/25\/lung-cancer-screening-criteria-study\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lisa Carter-Bawa<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/25\/lung-cancer-screening-criteria-study\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The hidden reason lung cancer screening is not working For years, federal policymakers have tweaked lung cancer screening guidelines as if the barrier to saving lives is a math problem. Add a few years to the eligibility age. Drop a few pack-years \u2014 a measure combining how much and how long someone has smoked. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2159,2143,3798],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-first-opinion","category-smoking","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}