Screening for Lung Cancer: Moving Into a New Era This issue of Annals includes the most recent U.S. Pre-ventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommenda-

tions on screening for lung cancer (1), an important paper because of the findings and because lung cancer causes as many deaths in the United States as the next 3 leading types of cancer combined (all of which already have screen-ing interventions). The USPSTF concluded that deaths due to lung cancer are significantly reduced by low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening in healthy individ-uals with an elevated risk for lung cancer (specifically adults aged 55 to 80 years who have a 30 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years). The USPSTF emphasizes careful patient selec-tion and not screening patients with lower risk or comor-bid conditions that limit life expectancy or suitability for resection. The accuracy of image interpretation should be similar to that in the NLST (National Lung Screenin