A 59-year-old male smoker presents with chronic cough and new hemoptysis. CT shows a 1.6 cm spiculated upper lobe nodule. He is 55 still smoking. What...

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A 59-year-old male smoker presents with chronic cough and new hemoptysis. CT shows a 1.6 cm spiculated upper lobe nodule. He is 55 still smoking. What screening/preventive step is applicable regardless of this finding?

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Order annual chest X-ray

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35 pack-years

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still smoking. What screening/preventive step is applicable regardless of this finding?

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Annual low-dose CT lung cancer screening

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Stop screening because CT already found a nodule

so continue annual ldct screening even as the nodule is evaluated diagnostically. chest radiograph and sputum

A 59-year-old male smoker presents with chronic cough and new hemoptysis. CT shows a 1.6 cm spiculated upper lobe nodule. He is 55 still smoking. What screening/preventive step is applicable regardless of this finding?