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. 2022 Aug 3;2022(8):CD013829. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013829.pub2

3. Recall rates, false positives and overdiagnosis .

  Recall rates at overall baseline
LDCT recall rate = 18% (8078/44,920) False positives 
Overall false‐positive rate from baseline LDCT = 21%
(8874/41857)
Overdiagnosis
Aberle 2011 All chest CTs performed postbaseline LDCT: 20%
(5153/26,309)
All chest CTs performed postbaseline CXR in control group: 6%
Baseline
LDCT: 6911/26,309 (26%)
Baseline CXR: 2243/26,035 (7%)
1‐year LDCT: 6728/24715 (27%)
1‐year CXR: 1416/24,089 (6%)
2‐year LDCT: 3838/24,102 (16%)
2‐year CXR: 1094/23, 346 (5%)
At 6.5 years post‐randomisation:
  • 11% (95% CI 3.2 to 18.2) from a public health perspective and 18.5% (95% CI 5.4 to 30.6) from a clinical perspective of all lung cancers

  • 67.6% (95% CI 53.5 to 78.5) from a public health perspective and 78.9% (95% CI 62.2 to 93.5) from a clinical perspective of all BAC


 
At 11.3 years post‐randomisation:
  • 3.1% of all lung cancers and 79% of BAC from a public health perspective

Becker 2020 Baseline LDCT: 22% (451/2028)
1‐year LDCT: 5%
2‐year LDCT: 4%
3‐year LDCT: 6%
4‐year LDCT: 5%
Baseline LDCT: 426/2028 (21%)
1‐year LDCT: 77/1892 (4%)
2‐year LDCT: 62/1849 (3%)
3‐year LDCT 94/1826 (5%)
4‐year LDCT: 88/1810 (5%)
At 9.7 years post‐randomisation:
  • 17.8% (95% CI ‐7.4 to 44.7) from a public health perspective and 25.4% (95% CI ‐11.3 to 64.3) from a clinical perspective of all lung cancers

  • 90% (95% CI 54.3 to 164.4) from a public health perspective and 112.5% (95% CI 68.2 to 113.1) from a clinical perspective of all BAC

Blanchon 2007 Not available Baseline LDCT: 73/336 (22%)
Baseline CXR: 14/285 (5%)
Not available
De Koning 2020 Baseline LDCT: 19% (1438/7557)
1‐year LDCT: 19%
Baseline LDCT 107/7557 (1%)
1‐year LDCT: 64/7295 (1%)
3‐year LDCT: 276/6922 (4%)
5.5‐year LDCT:  62/5279 (1%) 
Not available
Field 2021 Baseline LDCT: 5% (103/1994) Baseline LDCT: *909/1994 (46%) 
**72/1994 (4%) 
*when defined as needing any work‐up 
**when defined as referred to MDT
Estimated 15% of all lung cancers
Gohagan 2005 Baseline LDCT: 15% (232/1586)
Baseline CXR: 5% (76/1550)
Overall post‐LDCT: 8%
Overall post‐CXR in control group: 3%
Baseline LDCT: 286/1586 (18%)
Baseline CXR: 139/1550 (9%)
Not available
Infante 2015 Baseline LDCT: 10% (128/1276) Not available Not available
LaRocca 2002 Not available Not available Not available
Paci 2017 Baseline LDCT: 23% 366/1406)
1‐year LDCT: 14%
2‐year LDCT: 13%
3‐year LDCT: 11%
Not available At 11.3 years post‐randomisation, estimated overdiagnosis rates reported as ‐4% using public health perspective and ‐10% from a clinical perspective
Pastorino 2012 Baseline LDCT: 15% in annual group, 14% in (284/2303) biennial group
1‐year LDCT: 3% in annual group, 3% in biennial group
2‐year LDCT: 5% in annual group, 5% in biennial group
3‐year LDCT: 3% in annual group, 7% in biennial group
4‐year LDCT: 2% in annual group, 3% in biennial group
5‐year LDCT: 1% in annual group, 7% in biennial group
6‐year LDCT: 4% in annual group, 5% in biennial group
Median 6 annual LDCT: 54/1152 (5%)
Median 3 biennial LDCT: 34/1151 (3%)
Not available
Wille 2016 Baseline LDCT: 8% (155/2047)
1‐year LDCT: 1%
2‐year LDCT: 1%
3‐year LDCT: 1%
4‐year LDCT: 1%
Baseline LDCT: 162/2047 (8%)
1‐year LDCT: 34/1976 (2%)
2‐year LDCT: 39/1944 (2%)
3‐year LDCT: 32/1982 (2%)
4‐year LDCT: 35/1851 (2%)
Estimated 67.2% of lung cancers (95% CI 37.1 to 95.4) from unplanned posthoc analysis

BAC: bronchioalveolar carcinoma; CI: confidence interval; CT: computed tomography; CXR: chest x‐ray; LDCT: low‐dose computed tomography; MDT: multidisciplinary team.