Medical centers tout benefits of lung cancer screening, but rarely address potential harms

“These guidelines call for patients to understand the benefits and harms of screening prior to pursuing it…By presenting an imbalanced message, it seems that many of these websites do not promote this informed decision making for individuals.”–Stephen Clark, MD, MPH A new study examining the websites of lung cancer screening programs finds that although nearly all explain the benefits of screening with low-dose computed tomography scans, fewer...