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National Lung Cancer Screening Day
On November 9, 2024, the MASLAB's research team participated in the National Lung Cancer Screening Day for the third year. On this day, screening and imaging centers across the country screen members of their community for lung cancer. During the 2024 event held at VUMC's One Hundred Oaks clinic in Nashville, at least 15 patients at high risk for lung cancer received a low-dose CT scan for the early detection of lung cancer at Vanderbilt. MASLAB saw a dozen research patients for the study that day.
We encourage patients at high risk for lung cancer to understand that screening can be a proactive step towards your own health. If you or someone you know could benefit from screening, go to www.vanderbilthealth.com/program/lung-cancer-screening or call 615-322-0580 to schedule an appointment at one of our seven convenient screening centers at Vanderbilt locations in Middle Tennessee.
Stephen Deppen, PhD, and Yency Forero Martinez, MD, from the MASLAB, along with other collaborators, presented "Pathfinding Clinically Useful Early Diagnostics From Bench to Bedside: A Hands On Workshop" at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer held September 7-10.