Evidence suggests that CT scans to measure lung tumors can be unreliable. This could potentially lead patients and doctors to believe the cancer is growing when it’s not.
A new study found that changes of up to 10 percent can happen simply as a result of the inherent variability of CT imaging.
According to Reuters:
Daily News from Dr Mercola's site https://mercola.com Lung Cancer Scans Can be Unreliable by Dr. Mercola https://watchman.news/2011/08/lung-cancer-scans-can-be-unreliable/ Come back to https://Watchman.News for news updates every hour. Find news from many other outlets that are likeminded as far as fact checking and integrity.“[The study] … is the first to test how reliable lung cancer scans are — work that’s long overdue, experts say, because CT scans have already become the gold standard for measuring cancer growth and treatment response.”