Lung Cancer Screening Leads to High Rates of False Positives
June 2nd, 2009
The use of computed tomography (CT) to screen people for lung cancer leads to high rates of false positives, often triggering follow-up tests and invasive procedures, researchers said at the ASCO annual meeting. Concerns about the risks and benefits of lung cancer screening with CT have been raised previously, but this is the first report to quantify the risk of obtaining false-positive results.