How do you counsel eligible patients on lung cancer screening who are hesitant because of the cancer risk from CT scans?

This is simple. The risk of lung cancer in patients who have smoked for >20 years is orders of magnitude higher than the theoretical risk of medical X-ray-induced cancers from low-dose CT (LDCT) screening. A typical LDCT scan exposes patients to approximately 1.5 mSv of radiation, equivalent to abou...

The risk of lung cancer for patients having a greater than 20 pack-year history of smoking is much higher than the risk of cancer from a low-dose screening CT scan.