Parallel and often unrelated developments in health care and technology have all been necessary to bring about early detection of lung cancer and the opportunity to decrease mortality from lung cancer through early detection of the disease by computed tomography. Lung cancer screening programs provide education for patients and clinicians, support smoking cessation as primary prevention for lung cancer, and facilitate health care for tobacco-associated diseases, including cardiovascular and chronic lung diseases. Guidelines for lung cancer screening will need to continue to evolve as additional risk factors and screening tests are developed. Data collection from lung cancer screening programs is vital to the further development of fiscally responsible guidelines to increase detection of lung cancer, which may include small groups with elevated risk for reasons other than tobacco exposure.

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计算机断层扫描技术可早期检测肺癌

在医疗保健和技术领域，并行且通常不相关的发展对于实现肺癌的早期检测以及通过计算机断层摄影术早期发现疾病降低肺癌死亡率的机会都是必不可少的。肺癌筛查计划为患者和临床医生提供教育，支持戒烟作为肺癌的主要预防方法，并促进针对与烟草有关的疾病（包括心血管和慢性肺部疾病）的医疗保健。随着其他风险因素和筛查方法的发展，肺癌筛查指南将需要继续发展。从肺癌筛查计划中收集数据对于进一步制定对财政负责的指南以增加对肺癌的检测至关重要，