Effective and efficient large‐scale lung cancer screening

This news section offers Cancer readers timely information on events, public policy analysis, topical issues, and personalities. In this issue, low‐dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer enables early diagnosis in asymptomatic, high‐risk individuals and has been shown to reduce lung cancer‐related mortality. In addition, the FDA recently approved the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab as a frontline treatment for adults with unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, and a trial suggests that transperineal prostate biopsy under local anesthesia offers superior prostate cancer detection over the conventional approach using transrectal ultrasound.