Chest X-rays are not easy to detect lung cancer, even during a routine annual physical exam.
Generally, the clinical tests for lung cancer include cranial MRI and whole-body bone scan to exclude brain metastases and multiple bone metastases throughout the body; X-ray is the most common and one of the most basic means to diagnose lung cancer, including chest fluoroscopy, chest X-ray, chest CT scan, etc.; sputum cytology: most patients with primary central lung cancer can find exfoliated cancer cells in their sputum, The sputum cytology examination is a simple and effective method for lung cancer screening and diagnosis because the histological type of cancer cells can be determined.
Chest X-ray can reveal tumors, but it cannot confirm the diagnosis of tumors (cancer), which currently relies mainly on pathology.