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The number of individuals eligible for lung cancer screening has nearly doubled since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently expanded guidelines to include individuals 50 to 80 years of age who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years. Moreover, the number of pulmonary nodules discovered incidentally on computed tomography during screening has also markedly increased.
For patients with pulmonary nodules requiring treatment, the role of thoracic surgery is well established, but the role of radiotherapy is unclear. To address this issue, investigators conducted a prospective cohort study of 1150 patients who presented with pulmonary nodules at a lung cancer screening clinic during …