Overdiagnosis, Misleading 5-Year Lung Cancer Survival in Taiwan

A push to increase lung cancer screening among a largely nonsmoking Asian female population led to significant overdiagnosis and dubiously high 5-year survival rates, researchers in Taiwan report.

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