Lung cancer screening with low-dose computerised tomography. Thoughts on its use in Spain

Reconsidering lung cancer screening: is biannual screening possible?

“…Lung cancer screening using LDCT is expensive. Even if it is assumed that it is beneficial if the number needed to screen to detect one lung cancer is low, a large amount of resources must be allocated to start and maintain the screening program (15). If screening frequency were to be reduced to a biannual screening, its cost could be reduced approximately by half (excluding infrastructure resources).…”