Patients should be screened every 6 months with low-dose CT. Category 3: Probably benign – refers to probably benign findings but a short-term follow-up is suggested includes nodules with a low likelihood of becoming a clinically active cancer.Patients should continue to have annual screening with low-dose CT. Category 2: Benign appearance or behavior – refers to nodules with a very low likelihood of becoming a clinically active cancer due to size or lack of growth.Category 1: Negative – refers to findings of no nodules and definitely benign nodules.These patients should have additional lung cancer screening CT images and/or comparisons to prior chest CT examinations if needed. Category 0: Incomplete - refers to incomplete studies that cannot be evaluated due to technical or missing information.She outlined the categories of lesions detected with CT scans during the screening process: She said the program will be rolled out in January. LungRADS was released in April 2014, and is expected to be used in compiling data on patients in line with lung screening diagnoses and in mandated registries, Kazerooni said here during a Hot Topics session at the 100th anniversary meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

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