Renal Cancer and Incidental Findings on Low-Dose CT

Principal Investigator

Name
Paul Pinsky

Institution
NCI

Position Title
Acting Chief, EDRG

Email
pp4f@nih.gov

About this CDAS Project

Study
NLST (Learn more about this study)

Project ID
NLST-126

Initial CDAS Request Approval
Mar 11, 2015

Title
Renal Cancer and Incidental Findings on Low-Dose CT

Summary
Renal cancer incidence has been increasing in recent decades, in tandem with increases in CT use, including abdominal CT and chest CT. The purpose of this project is to examine the potential of low-dose CT to detect incidental abnormalities that lead to renal cancer diagnoses.

Aims

1. To examine non-lung cancer abnormality codes on low-dose CT and their relation to incident renal cancer. Also, to compare survival for subjects with renal cancer detected incidentally versus otherwise diagnosed.

2. To compare renal cancer incidence rates across trial arms.

Collaborators

Barbara Dunn