“Screening for lung cancer: time for large-scale screening by chest computed tomography.” Dekel Shlomi, Ronny Ben-Avi, Gingy Ronen Balmor, Amir Onn and Nir Peled. Eur Respir J 2014; 44: 217–238

It has been brought to our attention that a sentence regarding lung cancer detection rates in this article was ambiguous in its originally published form, appearing on page 220, section entitled “Low-dose CT screening detection rates”, second sentence:

“Detection rate of lung cancer ranged between 1.1–2% in baseline screening and false-positive rates of 90–96%.”

The authors wish to clarify the matter and point out that the sentence should more correctly read:

“Detection rate of lung cancer ranged between 1.1–2% in baseline screening and false-detection rates of 90–96%.”

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