Give a Scan
With deep appreciation, LCA dedicates the Give A Scan
program to those advocates - the pioneers - who donated their data for the
pilot study that enabled this program to be developed.
Give A Scan is the first publicly available archive
that contains images and clinical data on lung cancer patients. All the data has
been donated by patients in order to encourage more researchers to focus on
lung cancer and to accelerate progress in the early detection, diagnosis and
treatment of lung cancer which is now the leading cause of cancer death in the
world.
Researchers around the world can access the data at no
charge at www.giveascan.org
which is owned and under the jurisdiction of Lung Cancer Alliance, which
is the only national organization dedicated solely to patient support services
and advocacy for those with lung cancer, their caregivers, families and
friends, and those at risk for lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Alliance gratefully acknowledges the
assistance of Kitware, Inc. in developing the project and in the
construction and maintenance of the Give A Scan website, in particular Rick
Avila and Julien Jomier.