{"id":307,"date":"2014-10-07T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/?p=307"},"modified":"2014-10-08T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:11:43","slug":"lung-cancer-screening-information-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer screening &#8211; information for patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cancer Institute has developed a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/newscenter\/qa\/2002\/NLSTstudyGuidePatientsPhysicians\" target=\"_blank\">guide for patients and clinicians<\/a>\u00a0to review the data from the NLST to facilitate communication about the benefits and harms of screening.<\/p>\n<p>Summing from the table and extrapolating from the study results here are some possible talking points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mortality is decreased by 20% relative to cxr alone<\/p>\n<p>over a 3 year period, Out of 1000 patients, 18 will die from lung cancer vs 21 without a CT (3 fewer).<\/p>\n<p>In 1 year,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Out of 1000 patients, you will pick up a resectable cancer in 6.45 patients<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Out of 1000 patients, you will pick up a false positive \u00a0in 6.45 patients<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Cancer Institute has developed a&nbsp;guide for patients and clinicians&nbsp;to review the data from the NLST to facilitate communication about the benefits and harms of screening. Summing from the table and extrapolating from the study results here are some possible talking points: &ndash; Mortality is decreased by 20% relative to cxr alone over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic"],"modified_by":"Jennings","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfhpulm.com\/info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}