PET scans for lung nodules: costs and cost-effectiveness.

摘要

Lung cancer's staggering mortality, and our desire to reduce it, draws us repeatedly back to a sometimes Heated debate about screening, its suspected benefits, and its known or suspected risks. From a societal perspective, one of the known risks of screening is the potentially immense financial cost. The approach currently under investigation centers on CT scans, which though very sensitive, are lacking in specificity