The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) is lauding the American Cancer Society's (ACS) endorsement and publication of guidelines covering the use of low-dose CT screening for individuals at high risk of lung cancer.
ACS' action represents an important milestone in reducing access barriers for high-risk individuals to get lung cancer screening, MITA said. MITA also called upon the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to re-evaluate its position on performing low-dose CT scans for lung cancer screening. In 2004, USPSTF said that data available at the time did not support lung cancer screening with any imaging method.
