P3.11-26 Results of Initial Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening for Lung Cancer from a Single-Institution in China

Abstract

Lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been reported to reduce lung cancer-specific mortality for smokers at high risk in patients of the United States. However, there are very few LDCT screening results from Chinese patients. We here report the screening findings at the initial round of LDCT screening program from a single-institution population-based cohort in China. We conducted a retrospective study of a single-institution population-based LDCT screening program for lung cancer. Patients participated LDCT in Taizhou Hospital of Enze Medical Center were eligible. All noncalcified nodules with long-axis diameters of 4mm or greater in the axial plane were considered to be positive for potential lung cancer according to NLST definition. If more than three nodules were found, one dominant nodules were selected for this analysis. From July 2017 through December 2017, a total of 8611 participants with LDCT screening were included in this report. A total of 78 participants with history of cancer and 437 participants were follow-up procedures were excluded in this analysis. Of the remaining 8096 participants, the median age was 51 years (range, 16-97 years). A total of 1516 (18.8%) participants were younger than 40 years, 5264 (65.2%) were 40-64 years and 1316 (16.3%) were greater than 64 years. The total proportion of positive nodules was 21.8%, slightly higher in females (535/2258, 23.7%) than males (1233/5838, 21.1%). Lung cancer was diagnosed in 26 participants (0.32%) (11 males and 14 females) of the 1768 positive nodules. The comprehensive demographics of 26 lung cancer patients (included one patients with multiple metastases tumor from pancreas) is shown table 1. The overall rate of positive nodules is similar to previous reports, and the overall cancer detection rate by LDCT in our cohort was lower than previous reports from others (0.36-3.3%).