Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Alliance Issues Statement on Recently Released Federal Study on Lung Cancer Screening
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 11th, 2010
However, the paper by Jennifer M. Croswell, MD and co-authors published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, claiming that CT scans yield twice as many false positives as chest x-rays and lead to a high percentage of invasive follow-up procedures, is based on a study (the Lung Screening Trial -LSS) done in 2000-2001 that used outdated equipment and failed to follow a uniform diagnostic protocol.
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-05-11)
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