V-080 * INTRAOPERATIVE DYNA-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY TO RESECT UNPALPABLE LUNG CANCER

Computed tomography in staging for lung cancer.

Computed tomography (CT) provides the most detailed imaging information, hence it is generally used as a routine imaging procedure in the tumour, node, metastasis (TNM)-staging of patients with lung cancer. However, despite the continuously ongoing process of improvement in CT scanning in which today's CT scanners combine fast acquisition, fast data reconstruction and high detail, the technique...

Lung Cancer Screening by Helical Computed Tomography

Computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes.

CONTEXT Current and former smokers are currently being screened for lung cancer with computed tomography (CT), although there are limited data on the effect screening has on lung cancer outcomes. Randomized controlled trials assessing CT screening are currently under way. OBJECTIVE To assess whether screening may increase the frequency of lung cancer diagnosis and lung cancer resection or may...

Computed tomography screening for lung cancer.

The development of CT technology reopened the lung cancer screening debate. Computed tomography screening for lung cancer certainly meets all the criteria required for an appropriate screening test. First and perhaps most importantly, the disease for which the screening is being performed should have a significant prevalence in the population being studied and be a significant health risk for t...

Early Lung Cancer Detection Using Computed Tomography

INTRODUCTION Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in United States and worldwide with around 1.3 million death per year. But general prognosis of lung cancer is poor. Overall, 16% of people in the United States diagnosed with lung cancer survive five years after the diagnosis [1]. Late diagnosis is the primary reason for the high mortality. Lung cancer is assigned a stage fr...