Lung Cancer Research: Delhi AIIMS invites chain smokers for low-dose CT

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS, New Delhi will be conducting a study to see the effect of low-dose CT on early lung cancer diagnosis.

According to the information given by AIIMS, "Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi is conducting a pilot study to see the effect of Low dose CT on early lung cancer diagnosis." 

This study is for a short-term defined period only of a few months, or till the planned numbers are achieved.

According to the information from the AIIMS, the study will be done under the guidance of Dr Ayush Goel from AIIMS.

The purpose of the study is to identify lung cancer cases in the early stages before they reach to the advanced stage.

"There were around 103371 cases of lung cancer in India in 2022. Most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage leading to poor outcomes with the median overall survival being only 8.8 months. Screening using low-dose computed tomography (Low Dose CT scan) among smokers may be one of the modalities that could help pick up lung cancer early," the statement added.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that towards propelling healthcare excellence in India, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare dedicated new state-of-the-art facilities at AIIMS New Delhi to the nation.The new facilities inaugurated were Mother and Child Block, Surgical block, National Centre for Geriatrics, New Paid Ward in Main hospital; Center for Advanced Research in Hospital Infection Control and Forensic DNA Laboratory at JPN Apex Trauma Centre and Centre for Medical Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CMIE) and Private Ward Wing at National Cancer Institute (NCI), Jhajjar to the nation.