Shared decision-making conversations and smoking cessation interventions: critical components of low-dose CT lung cancer screening programs

Every year, more deaths occur from lung cancer than from colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, accounting for 1.8 million new cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2012 (1). Lung cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, resulting in a 5-year survival rate of 16% (2). Screening and detection of earlier-stage disease has improved the survival of patients with the aforementioned non-lung cancers; an effective screening method for lung cancer was lacking until recently