CT lung screening gets boost by adding COPD sequence
Low-dose CT lung screening has already demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing mortality from lung cancer. Now, Dutch researchers have found that adding a short sequence to the low-dose CT protocol can help the modality detect chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The findings from the single-center, prospective trial at University Medical Center Utrecht should shift the debate over the cost-effectiveness of CT lung screening, following the publication of results in 2010 from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), which found that low-dose CT screening could reduce lung cancer deaths by more than 20%. Adding a second test to a lung cancer screen could make CT even more cost-effective in detecting chest pathology (JAMA, October 26, 2011, Vol. 306:16, pp. 1775-1781).
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