Study Authors Discourage Widespread CT Screening For Lung Cancer
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A study questioning the validity of expensive CT scans for patients at high risk for lung cancer contradicts previous research and dampens the momentum of policy aimed to encourage CT lung cancer screening
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