Komal Sharma, Founder at Mednoia Pratik Sharma, Cloud Solution Architect at MicrosoftMost conversations about closing the lung cancer screening gap focus on uptake, and for good reason. Current screening eligibility runs through a smoking history filter: roughly twenty or more pack-years, within a defined age band. In the Boston Lung Cancer Study, an analysis of more than 7,000 patients who had lung cancer, only 46 percent met current USPSTF screening criteria. American Cancer Society, 2025 Lung Cancer Data: Only 1 in 5 Eligible Adults in U.S. Boston Lung Cancer Study, “Assessing Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility of Patients With Lung Cancer” (7,186 cases; 46.1% met USPSTF criteria), 2025.