Overdiagnosis in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer [1]
This study examined the rate of overdiagnosis (detection rate of indolent tumors) of lung cancer in the NLST. They found that 18% of all lung cancers detected were of the indolent type, and nearly 79% of the bronchioalveolar cancers were likely indolent.
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JAMA Internal Medicine
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