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New Screening Approach Neededd to Detect Lung Cancer in Patients who Never
Smoked
DURING ACLC 2022 , DR . GEE-CHEN CHANG MADE THE CASE FOR MOVING
BEYOND SMOKING HISTORY TO IDENTIFY AT-RISK PATIENTS AND SHARED AN ALTERNATIVEE RISK PREDICATION MODEL THAT COMPARED FAVORABLY AGAINST NLST AND NELSON .
By : Erin Jungmeyer on : December 06 , 2022In : MEETING
NEWS , SCREENING / ED
Lung cancer in patients who have never smoked is a global rising threat , especially in East Asia , where in such countries as Taiwan , China , and
Singapore you see low prevalence (< 10
%) of smokers among female lung cancer patients ( Table 1 ).
Table 1
So said Gee-Chen Chang MD , PhD , during a lecture at the 2022 Asia Conference on Lung Cancer . Indeed , Dr . Chang , who is with the division of pulmonary medicine in the department of internal medicine and Chung Shan Medical University Hospital in Taichung , Taiwan , said a study of nearly 58,000 lung cancer cases in Taiwan showed more than 50 % of patients had never smoked . ( Table 2 )
Dr . Chang said there are many problems to be solved when it comes to improving detection of lung cancer in patients who never smoked :