The definitive trial for this controversial topic is due in 2009. Already, the authors are being attacked as being tobacco company stooges:

Since late last year, the Lung Cancer Alliance, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that supports screening, has asserted in letters to the NCI and its parent, the National Institutes of Health, that two of the study’s key researchers have conflicts of interest because they have accepted money from tobacco companies to be expert defense witnesses in lawsuits. The suits sought to force the companies to pay for annual CT screening.

I’m looking forward to the results of this study myself, as it should add a lot to the debate of whether chest CTs are appropriate screening studies. Dr. Wes and GoozNews with more.