Scoring System for Lung Cancer Screening Debuts

A hot topic at the recent meeting of the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) was the implementation of LungRADS, a scoring system for categorizing lesions on CT, to be utilitized as part of CT screening for lung cancer.  Scans are assigned to one of 5 categories, ranging from incomplete to 4A (suspicious, follow-up or further testing warranted) and 4B (highly suspicious, further evaluation warranted).