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Q for radiologist what is the sensitivity of ct scan when patient is symptomatic for lung cancer with weight loss and fatigue?

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Dr. Michael Gabor answered

Specializes in Diagnostic Radiology

If the lung: Cancer is advanced enough to cause those types of symptoms, a technically adequate contrast enhanced CT scan should have a detection sensitivity in the high 90s, probably approaching 100%. If the scan was technically limited or degraded by, say, artifact from patient motion, sensitivity could be significantly less.

Answered 8/27/2016

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