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Carolyn Jean Presley, MD, and James L. Mulshine, MD, on New Lung Cancer CT Screening Guidelines and Treatment Burden

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

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James L. Mulshine, MD, of Rush University Medical Center, and Carolyn Jean Presley, MD, of Yale Cancer Center/Yale School of Medicine, discuss the burden on patients and the Medicare system as new lung cancer CT guidelines are put into effect and treatment of early-stage NSCLC increases (Abstract 7533).



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