A new study shows how to personalize the lung cancer screening decision for every patient. The new free online tool called Lung Decision Precision may help doctors fine-tune their advice to patients, so that it's based not just on a patient's individual lung cancer risk and the potential benefits and harms of screening, but also a likely range of patient attitudes about looking for problems and dealing with the consequences. The study is published in i Annals of Internal Medicine/i.
For smokers ...
A new study shows how to personalize the lung cancer screening decision for every patient. The new free online tool called Lung Decision Precision may help doctors fine-tune their advice to patients, so that it's based not just on a patient's individual lung cancer risk and the potential benefits and harms of screening, but also a likely range of patient attitudes about looking for problems and dealing with the consequences. The study is published in i Annals of Internal Medicine/i.
For smokers ...