Vancouver risk calculator found to improve lung cancer screening

Authors of the research, published Jan. 22 in Radiology, did report the Vancouver method was less specific and less accurate when it came to subsolid nodules. In the study, researchers scored more than 4,400 nodules taken from 2,813 patients as part of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). The nodules were scored using VRC with nine parameters and Lung-RADS. Of the total, 4,078 nodules were solid, 330 were subsolid. On a per-nodule basis, VRC achieved a sensitivity, specificity and ...

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