Misinformation and Overestimation of Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Harms—Methodology Matters: A Joint Statement from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, and the American College of Radiology

A number of recent peer-reviewed articles pertinent to CT lung cancer screening (LCS) contain substantial methodological flaws that contribute to the propagation of misinformation. Herein we highlight three important examples of misinformation regarding LCS: (1) the overestimation of downstream imaging and procedural complications after LCS, (2) the misrepresentation of LCS false-positive rate (FPR), and (3) the flawed analysis of oncogenic risk associated with radiation from CT scans.

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