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. 2019 Dec;15(4):346-349.
doi: 10.1183/20734735.0247-2019.

Management of incidental nodules in lung cancer screening: ready for prime-time?

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Management of incidental nodules in lung cancer screening: ready for prime-time?

Nikolaos I Kanellakis et al. Breathe (Sheff). 2019 Dec.

Abstract

Current clinical management of lung nodule patients is inefficient and therefore causes patient misclassification, which increases healthcare expenses. A precise and robust lung nodule classifier could minimise healthcare costs and discomfort for patients. http://bit.ly/2oMIEwQ.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: N. I. Kanellakis has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: K. Lamote reports grants from Kom op tegen Kanker (Stand up to Cancer), the Flemish cancer society, during the conduct of the study.

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Out of 685 subjects included in the study 507 were excluded from the analysis due to ineligibility (n=59), incomplete clinical data (n=192), protocol deviations (n=19), serum samples not appropriate for analysis (n=23) or pre-test probability of malignancy over 50% (n=214). 178 subjects were eligible for analysis.

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