PROJECT DETAILS:
- CLIENT: American College of Radiology
- PUBLICATION: ACR Imaging 3.0
- PROJECT: Case Study
- INDUSTRY: Medical / Radiology
- FEATURING:
- Alexander A. Bankier, MD, PhD, medical director of LungHealth at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, chief of the cardiothoracic imaging section, director of functional respiratory imaging in the radiology department, and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School;
- Lauren M. Taylor, RN, BSN, program manager of LungHealth at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center;
- Mark D. Aronson, MD, vice chair for quality in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
- READ IT: “A Proactive Role for Radiology“
Only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed early, when the five-year survival rate can be as high as 90%. Most aren’t detected until the advanced stages, when the five-year survival rate plummets to 5%, the highest mortality rate of any cancer.
After the National Lung Screening Trial proved that advanced screening technologies could improve this prognosis through earlier detection, radiologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital in Boston, built a life-saving lung cancer screening program for high-risk patients.
This case study for the American College of Radiology, part of the ACR’s Imaging 3.0 initiative to highlight the value of radiology, details how radiologists designed this program to be convenient for both patients and referring physicians.
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