Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Jason M. Hafron, director of research at the Michigan Institute of Urology, was taken aback by the results of a study he was conducting: the vast majority of patients with prostate cancer who need regular injections to suppress their testosterone levels didn't get treated on time.

By making lung cancer screening available to a larger population, the new guideline from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force could save an additional 120 lives per 100,000 Americans, said Michael J. Barry, a member of the Task Force, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.