Small lung nodules found in testing not necessarily cancerous, expert says By WANG XIAODONG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-19 09:03 Share CLOSE
Strict COVID-19 prevention, control and screening measures in hospitals across China may have helped curb potential deaths caused by lung cancer, a senior expert in lung diseases said.
On the other hand, people identified as having small nodules in their lungs during COVID-19 screening should not worry excessively as most such nodules will not develop into cancer, said Zhi Xiuyi, vice-president of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control. In many places, it has become mandatory for all patients to undergo a computed tomography test on their lungs to rule out novel coronavirus infection before they are hospitalized, said Zhi, also director of Capital Medical University s Lung Cancer Center.