IASLC CT Screening Workshop 2011 Report

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22173661

J Thorac Oncol. 2012 Jan;7(1):10-19.
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Computed Tomography Screening Workshop 2011 Report.
Field JK, Smith RA, Aberle DR, Oudkerk M, Baldwin DR, Yankelevitz D, Pedersen JH, Swanson SJ, Travis WD, Wisbuba II, Noguchi M, Mulshine JL; IASLC CT Screening Workshop 2011 Participants.
Source
*Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; †American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA; ‡Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; §Centre for Medical Imaging EB45, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; ∥Respiratory Medicine Unit, David Evans Centre, Nottingham City Hospital Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, United Kingdom; ¶Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; #Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; **Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ††Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; ‡‡Departments of Pathology and Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; §§Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; and ∥∥Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract
The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Board of Directors convened a computed tomography (CT) Screening Task Force to develop an IASLC position statement, after the National Cancer Institute press statement from the National Lung Screening Trial showed that lung cancer deaths fell by 20%. The Task Force's Position Statement outlined a number of the major opportunities to further improve the CT screening in lung cancer approach, based on experience with cancer screening from other organ sites.The IASLC CT Screening Workshop 2011 further developed these discussions, which are summarized in this report. The recommendation from the workshop, and supported by the IASLC Board of Directors, was to set up the Strategic CT Screening Advisory Committee (IASLC-SSAC). The Strategic CT Screening Advisory Committee is currently engaging professional societies and organizations who are stakeholders in lung cancer CT screening implementation across the globe, to focus on delivering guidelines and recommendations in six specific areas: (i) identification of high-risk individuals for lung cancer CT screening programs; (ii) develop radiological guidelines for use in developing national screening programs; (iii) develop guidelines for the clinical work-up of "indeterminate nodules" resulting from CT screening programmers; (iv) guidelines for pathology reporting of nodules from lung cancer CT screening programs; (v) recommendations for surgical and therapeutic interventions of suspicious nodules identified through lung cancer CT screening programs; and (vi) integration of smoking cessation practices into future national lung cancer CT screening programs.