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Celebrating 25 years of lung cancer

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Sep 10, 2023 | Replies (125)

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Yes, I also have noted that CT reports sometimes mention unrelated conditions. That could be of value in discovering other issues to treat.

My work required a lot of analysis, so it is second nature to me to seek to analyze data. I am curious to know how doctors track evolving cases when the CT scan reports seem to lack standardization in reporting. I would think that lungs would be divided into specific segments, and CT scan report would report on each segment.
I follow closely all my reports from several different institutions. Technology has provided a great gift to medicine, but there is work to be done in creating processes to input data and analyze clinical profiles so that the medical intelligence created by such technical capacities can be easily utilized by healthcare providers. Doctors have limited time, and complex cases require an investment of time for a new provider. Medical intelligence needs to be well organized to highlight key points. I can't imagine what they did before technology!

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You are right - pretty much everything in medicine has been defined in detail. The lungs have indeed been divided into pieces - 5 lobes(2 left, 3 right) and further divided into segments(8 left, 10 right) and then you can describe sub parts of these with the common terms for front, back, top, bottom, etc.
How well the reports use these definitions depends on the individual pulmonary radiologist. Strict standardization in reporting can have its own issues too.