Noninvasive risk stratification of lung adenocarcinoma using quantitative computed tomography.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and worldwide. Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer and encompasses lesions with widely variable clinical outcomes. In the absence of noninvasive risk stratification, individualized patient management remains challenging. Consequently a subgroup of pulmonary nodules of the lung adenocarcinoma spectrum is likely treated more aggressively than necessary.

Methods

Consecutive patients with surgically resected pulmonary nodules of the lung adenocarcinoma spectrum (lesion size ≤3 cm, 2006-2009) and available presurgical high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) imaging were identified at Mayo Clinic Rochester. All cases were classified using an unbiased Computer-Aided

SUBMITTER: Raghunath S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254143 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature