Lung cancer screening in India: Preparing for the future using smart tools & biomarkers to identify highest risk individuals
Nithya Ramnath, Prasanth Ganesan, Prasanth Penumadu, Douglas Arenberg, Alex Bryant · 2025
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Nithya Ramnath and co-authors lay out a plan for lung cancer screening in India, published in 2024. Cases are rising, driven by nearly 100 million adult smokers and heavy air pollution, and most patients are found only at advanced stages. Annual low-dose CT scans are the standard screen, but scanning everyone at risk would strain a resource-limited system.
The authors argue for a smarter program with a higher yield. The idea is to aim scans at the people at highest risk, picked out with demographic and genomic data, smart tools, and blood-based biomarkers used with care. The paper reviews India's lung cancer patterns and their link to smoking habits. It then weighs how such targeting could work and what stands in its way. Building the model over the next several years, they say, would lay the base for a structured national screening effort.
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| CREATOR | Nithya Ramnath, Prasanth Ganesan, Prasanth Penumadu, Douglas Arenberg, Alex Bryant |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |