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Practice patterns for FDG PET-CT and FDG PET Imaging During Lung Cancer Screening Evaluation

Principal Investigator
Name
Viswam Nair
Degrees
MD MS
Institution
Leland Stanford Junior University
Position Title
Instructor of Medicine
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About this CDAS Project
Study
NLST (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
NLST-68
Initial CDAS Request Approval
Apr 14, 2014
Title
Practice patterns for FDG PET-CT and FDG PET Imaging During Lung Cancer Screening Evaluation
Summary
PET and PET-CT imaging is currently a stage IIc recommendation for indeterminate lung nodule evaluation by the ACCP Guideline Committee. Whether this is the appropriate recommendation and how this recommendation should extrapolate to the screening setting remains unclear. Since PET-CT is a useful, but imperfect, tool for diagnosis with a significant medical cost to society, examining practice patterns for its use during NLST will be informative. These results will be useful for future FDG PET solitary pulmonary nodule recommendations
Aims

We aim to perform a study examining the use of PET-CT in the NLST. We plan on analyzing the time from initial finding to PET, the type of PET (PET or PET CT) used, the nodule characteristics of patients that were selected for PET by CT, and potentially the cost utility of PET and or the efficacy of PET for expediting a diagnosis.

Collaborators

Michael K Gould

Kaiser Permanente Research
Department of Research & Evaluation
100 S Los Robles, 3rd Floor
Pasadena, CA 91101

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