IARC Perspective on Lung Cancer Screening

Luciana Neamţiu, Matthew E.J. Callister, Philip A.J. Crosbie, Stephen C. Lam, Vivienne Milch, Daniela Mariosa, Xiaoshuang Feng, Roya Dolatkhah, Ali Saeed Al Zahrani, Zhandos Amankulov

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Jean‐Luc Bulliard, Wendy A. Cooper, Luis Corrales, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Rayjean J. Hung, Ella Annabelle Kazerooni, Mengmeng Li, Peter Mazzone, Rafael Meza, Arn Migowski, Rachael L. Murray, Samantha L. Quaife, Robert Campbell Rintoul, Witold Rzyman, Wei Jie Seow, Abhishek Shankar, Mahdi Sheikh, Hilary A. Robbins, Mattias Johansson, Harry J. de Koning, Béatrice Secretan

2026

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DOI 10.1056/nejmsb2608211

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Abstract

The 21st volume of the IARC Handbooks summarizes and evaluates evidence for the benefits and harms of lung cancer screening with low-dose CT or chest radiography and assesses tools and strategies to improve screening.