50 Patient Characteristics and Outcomes from a Pulmonary Nodule Surveillance Service

Current guidelines recommend CT surveillance for some patients with indeterminate pulmonary nodules. An accepted risk of surveillance is stage progression of malignant nodules. Although this risk is thought to be small, there is minimal published data that has attempted to quantify this occurrence. Here we present characteristics and outcomes from patients under nodule surveillance.

Source: Lung Cancer - April 1, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Sarah Ahmad, Sarah Billingsley, Sadia Anwar, Bobby Bhartia, Alex Brunelli, Seung-Jin Choi, Michael Darby, Annette Johnson, Shishir Karthik, Martyn Kennedy, Phillip Melling, Marco Nardini, Elankumaran Paramasivam, Jonathan Robson, Kirsty Rodger, Matthew Ca Tags: Diagnosis and Staging Source Type: research