Clinical tool accurately classifies benign and malignant spots on lung scans of smokers

Clinical tool accurately classifies benign and malignant spots on lung scans of smokers
A Terry Fox Research Institute(TFRI)-led study has developed a new clinical risk calculator software that accurately classifies, nine out of ten times, which spots or lesions (nodules) are benign and malignant on an initial lung computed tomography (CT) scan among individuals at high risk for lung cancer.