ACR is your best resource for providing safe, effective lung cancer screening with the latest research, toolkits and key patient information.

• ACR CT Accreditation
  Earn the ACR gold standard in CT accreditation and show that your facility meets the highest quality and safety standards in medical imaging.

• Lung Cancer Screening Registry
  The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Registry, approved by CMS for reimbursement and PQRS participation, will calculate audit measures and provide peer comparisons.

• Lung Cancer Screening Education
      Learn how to implement a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program in your practice; receive CME/SA-CME credits and comply with ACR requirements for lung cancer screening through this all-new, interactive eLearning activity.

• ACR Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center
      Earn the ACR Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center status and demonstrate to your referrers and patients that you provide safe and effective care.

• Lung-RADS
  Standardize your lung cancer screening CT reporting and management recommendations with the ACR Lung Imaging Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS).

• Practice Parameters and Technical Standards
  ACR and the Society of Thoracic Radiology offer CT lung cancer screening practice parameters to help you provide safe and effective lung CT exams.
  

• ACR-STR Practice Parameter for the Performance and Reporting of Lung Cancer Screening Thoracic Computed Tomography (CT)

• Annals of Internal Medicine — Screening for Lung Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
  

• ACR Dose Index Registry® (DIR)
  Register your facility with the DIR and compare your CT dose indices against peers and competitors to improve performance.

• Coverage Information & FAQ
  Learn more about coverage and payment and review ACR answers to frequently asked questions.
  

                                                                Quality Assurance                         

• CT Quality Control Manual

• AAPM Protocols for Lung Cancer Screening

• RadioGraphics - The 10 Pillars of Lung Cancer Screening: Rationale and Logistics of a Lung Cancer Screening Program
  

                                                                Patient Information                         CT Lung Cancer Screening

• National Cancer Policy Forum - Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening Workshop

• National Cancer Institute — SEER Stat Fact Sheets: Lung and Bronchus Cancer

• National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines for Patients

• RadiologyInfo.org — Lung Cancer Screening
  

Smoking Cessation

• American Cancer Society — Guide to Quitting Smoking

• American Lung Association — How to Quit Smoking
  

Lung Cancer Advocates

• American Lung Association

• Lung Cancer Alliance
  

Screening Decision Aid

• Sample Templates

• ShouldIScreen.Com — a shared decision-making aid and risk calculator

• Development and Validation of a Personalized, Web-Based Decision Aid for Lung Cancer Screening Using Mixed Methods: A Study Protocol

• Example of Shared Decision Making for the Patient

• Example of Shared Decision Making Memo

• Is Lung Cancer Screening Right for Me?

• ShouldIScreen.com

• American Thoracic Society (ATS) Decision Aid for Lung Cancer Screening

• American Lung Association (ALA) Should you be screened for lung cancer?
  

Shared Decision Aid

• Example of Shared Decision Making/Appropriateness of Screening

• Example of Shared Decision Making for the Physician

• Lung Cancer Screening Tools

• A Decision Making Tool for You and Your Health Care Professional

• Summary Guide for Clinicians

• Lung Cancer Screening: A Clinician Checklist
  

                                                                Lung Cancer Screening Research                         National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) Results

• ACRIN PROTOCOL 6654

• Chest - Brain Imaging for Staging of Patients With Clinical Stage IA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer in the NLST

• Annals of Internal Medicine — NLST Findings by Age: Medicare-Eligible Versus Under-65 Population

• Cancer — Comparative Analysis of 5 Lung Cancer Natural History and Screening Models That Reproduce Outcomes of the NLST and PLCO Trials

• Cancer Prevention Research — Short and Long-Term Lung Cancer Risk Associated With Non-Calcified Nodules Observed on Low-Dose CT

• Journal of Medical Screening — ROC Curves for Low-Dose CT in the NLST

• NEJM — NLST primary results: Reduced Lung-Cancer Mortality With Low-Dose CT Screening

• NEJM — NLST Accompanying Editorial: Better Evidence About Screening for Lung Cancer

• NEJM — Results of Initial Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening for Lung Cancer

• NEJM — Results of the Two Incidence Screenings in the NLST

• Radiology — NLST Overview and Study Design

• Radiology — CT Screening for Lung Cancer: Alternative Definitions of Positive Test Result Based on the National Lung Screening Trial and International Early Lung Cancer Action Program Databases1

• Radiology — Association of Coronary Artery Calcification and Mortality in the National Lung Screening Trial: A Comparison of Three Scoring Methods
       

• Radiology — Racial Differences in Tobacco Cessation and Treatment Usage After Lung Screening: An Examination of the National Lung Screening Trial

• Am J Respir Crit Care Med — The Association between Smoking Abstinence and Mortality in the National Lung Screening Trial
  

Early Lung Cancer Action Program (ELCAP) Research

• Radiology - CT Screening for Lung Cancer: Nonsolid Nodules in Baseline and Annual Repeat Rounds

• I-ELCAP Official Site

• Annals of Internal Medicine — Definition of a Positive Test Result in Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer: A Cohort Study

• Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention — Smoking Cessation and Relapse During a Lung Cancer Screening Program

• Clinical Imaging — Frequency of Coronary Artery Calcification on Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer

• European Journal of Cancer Prevention — The impact of the regimen of screening on lung cancer cure: a comparison of I-ELCAP and NLST

• Journal of Thorac and Cardiovasc Surgery — Balancing Curability and Unnecessary Surgery in the Context of Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer

• Journal of Thorac and Cardiovasc Surgery — Sublobar Resection Is Equivalent to Lobectomy for Clinical Stage 1A Lung Cancer in Solid Nodules

• Journal of Thorac and Cardiovasc Surgery — Discussion: Sublobar Resection Is Equivalent to Lobectomy for Clinical Stage 1A Lung Cancer in Solid Nodules

• Journal of Radiation Oncology — Radiation Therapy for Stage I Lung Cancer Detected on Computed Tomography Screening: Results From the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program

• The Lancet — Early Lung Cancer Action Project

• Lung Cancer — Assessment of Lung-Cancer Mortality Reduction From CT Screening

• NEJM — Survival of Patients With Stage I Lung Cancer Detected on CT Screening

• Radiology — Lung Cancers Diagnosed at Annual CT Screening: Volume Doubling Times

• Radiology — Ordinal Scoring of Coronary Artery Calcifications on Low-Dose CT Scans of the Chest Is Predictive of Death From Cardiovascular Disease
  

                                                                Other Articles                         

• American Health and Drug Benefits — Offering Lung Cancer Screening to High-Risk Medicare Beneficiaries Saves Lives and Is Cost-Effective: An Actuarial Analysis

• JACR — Experience With a CT Screening Program For Individuals at High Risk for Developing Lung Cancer

• JACR — Lung Cancer Reprint Supplement

• Lung Cancer Screening With Low-Dose CT in the United States

• JACR — Performance of ACR Lung-RADS™ in a Clinical CT Lung Screening Program

• JACR — Timeliness of Recommended Follow-Up After an Abnormal Finding on Diagnostic Chest CT in Smokers at High Risk of Developing Lung Cancer

• Lung Cancer Screening With Low-Dose Computed Tomography for Primary Care Providers

• NEJM — Screening for Lung Cancer with Low-Dose CT — Translating Science into Medicare Coverage Policy