Lung cancer screening is really a program. It’s not just a CT scan. And so lung cancer screening at our institution, at National Jewish Health, involves a centralized approach where patients are first contacted by our navigators who review the eligibility criteria or insurance coverage. And then the patients come in to National Jewish Health and meet with one of our advanced practice providers.
And that visit is very important for having the patients understand all about why they’re doing the lung cancer screening.
The patient then goes on to get their CT scan and the advanced practice provider calls the patient with the results.
To be eligible for lung cancer screening, you need to be within 50 to 80 years of age, have a significant smoking history, can either be currently smoking, or you need to have quit within the past 15 years.
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