EMC doctors have developed a new patient management strategy for lung cancer screening

Low-dose computed tomography in lung cancer screening helps to identify suspicious pulmonary nodules at the earliest stages of their formation, when treatment is most effective.

The authors managed to develop a cost-effective and patient-oriented algorithm for managing patients with lung nodules larger than 8 mm. The tactics of managing such patients depend on which of their 4 conditional lung zones the suspicious node is located.

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