Disparities of National Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines in the US Population

Background Current US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) lung cancer screening guidelines are based on smoking history and age (55–80 years). These guidelines may miss those at higher risk, even at lower exposures of smoking or younger ages, because of other risk factors such as race, family history, or comorbidity. In this study, we characterized the demographic and clinical profiles of those selected by risk-based screening criteria but...