Expanding reach, enhancing capacity: embracing the role of primary care in lung cancer screening and smoking cessation in the United States

A major update has just been released regarding the proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States.1 We are not particularly surprised to note the increasing impact of smoking on the prevalence of lung cancer, given documented minimal changes in smoking rates in middle-aged and older adults in the past decade.2