{"id":2165,"date":"2017-08-21T03:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T03:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/uncategorized\/unique-test-help-detect-lung-cancer-early"},"modified":"2017-08-25T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T03:42:00","slug":"unique-test-help-detect-lung-cancer-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/news\/unique-test-help-detect-lung-cancer-early","title":{"rendered":"Unique test to help detect lung cancer early"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Unique test to help detect lung cancer early<\/h1>\n<p>Researchers at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) are trialling a new test with the potential to provide early diagnosis for lung cancer, the world\u2019s most deadliest cancers.<\/p>\n<p>As Australia\u2019s lead site for the international trial, TPCH is aiming to identify how lung cancer can be detected earlier using low dose CT scanning and Computer Aided Diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Early screening and diagnosis will allow earlier intervention and treatment to help reduce the number of advanced incurable lung cancers that occur in Australia each year.<\/p>\n<p>Lung cancer is the biggest cause of cancer deaths with some 12,000 new cases diagnosed in Australia each year.<\/p>\n<p>The disease is typically diagnosed at an advanced stage and currently, only 15 per cent of people survive beyond five years after diagnosis.<\/p>\n<h2>Participants needed<\/h2>\n<p>TPCH is looking for interested individuals to join the lung screening trial to assist with this vital research.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must be:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>A smoker or recent former smoker<\/li>\n<li>Aged from 55 to 80<\/li>\n<li>In good general health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To register interest for the trial, phone 07&nbsp;3139&nbsp;6632.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/230392820?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) are trialling a new test with the potential to provide early diagnosis for lung cancer, the world\u2019s most deadliest cancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}