Many medical organizations have been[1] recommending lung[2] cancer screening[3] for decades for those at high risk of developing the disease.
But in 2022, less than 6% of people[4] in the U.S. eligible for screening actually got screened. Compared with other common cancer screenings, lung cancer screening rates fall terribly behind. For comparison, the screening rate in 2021 for colon cancer was 72%[5], and the rate for ...