Yearly Scans May Find More Lung Cancers, But With a Price

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Implementing yearly CT scans to screen for lung cancer in people on Medicare who are at highest risk for the disease would detect about 54,900 additional cases of lung cancer over five years and cost Medicare $9.3 billion.

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