A technology to address the problem of false positives in CT-based lung cancer screening has been identified by a team of researchers including investigators from Mayo Clinic. The team's findings are published in the current issue of PLOS One.
"As physicians, one of the most challenging problems in screening patients for lung cancer is that the vast majority of the detected pulmonary nodules are not cancer," says Tobias Peikert, M.D., a pulmonologist at Mayo Clinic. "Even in individuals who are ...
A technology to address the problem of false positives in CT-based lung cancer screening has been identified by a team of researchers including investigators from Mayo Clinic. The team's findings are published in the current issue of PLOS One.
"As physicians, one of the most challenging problems in screening patients for lung cancer is that the vast majority of the detected pulmonary nodules are not cancer," says Tobias Peikert, M.D., a pulmonologist at Mayo Clinic. "Even in individuals who are ...