The 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force lung cancer screening eligibility criteria disproportionately exclude younger Black patients with lung cancer
This analysis of SCCS participants with lung cancer found that the 2021 USPSTF eligibility criteria disproportionately exclude many younger Black individuals with lung cancer, primarily because they have too few smoking pack-years.
Authors
- Chi‐Fu Jeffrey Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5792-3522)
- Erica T. Warner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2671-0313)
- Arian Mansur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-5127)
- Priyanka Senthil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7335-5708)
- Sangkavi Kuhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8673-7449)
- Chinmay Haridas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-0033)
- Deepti Srinivasan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-6841)
- Arvind Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9608-8267)
- Wei Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1226-070X)
- Alexandra L. Potter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0946-3166)
Institutions
- Harvard University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cancer
- Published
- 2024-12-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.35676
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.84
Funders
- Pfizer
- AstraZeneca
- Vanderbilt University
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- National Institutes of Health
- Genentech
- National Cancer Institute