The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines that determine which smokers qualify for CT scans exclude significant numbers of African Americans who develop lung cancer, a health disparity that merits modifications to lung cancer screening criteria, according to a study from Vanderbilt researchers.
http://news.vumc.org/2019/06/27/health-disparity-for-blacks-exists-within-lung-screening-guidelines/