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Table 4 Patients with record of Biopsy by typea

From: Understanding the patient journey to diagnosis of lung cancer

 

CT guided biopsy

Bronchoscopy

Surgical biopsy

Total procedures

Unique # of patients

lung cancer DX

SPN only

lung cancer DX

SPN only

lung cancer DX

SPN only

lung cancer DX

SPN only

lung cancer DX

SPN only

Total number of procedures, N (%)

628 (42.75)

271 (19.32)

710 (48.33)

970 (69.14)

131 (8.92)

162 (11.55)

1469

1403

1167 (100.00)

932 (100.00)

1st biopsy

500 (42.84)

231 (24.79)

637 (54.58)

618 (66.31)

30 (2.57)

83 (8.91)

1167

932

1167 (100.00)

932 (100.00)

2nd biopsy

110 (42.97)

33 (16.18)

65 (25.39)

114 (55.88)

81 (31.64)

57 (27.94)

256

204

256 (21.94)

204 (21.89)

3rd biopsy

15 (39.47)

7 (8.64)

7 (18.42)

59 (72.84)

16 (42.11)

15 (18.52)

38

81

38 (3.26)

81 (8.69)

> 4 or more biopsy

3 (37.50)

0 (0.00)

1 (12.50)

179 (96.24)

4 (50.00)

7 (3.76)

8

186

6 (0.51)

46 (4.94)

  1. afrom REACHnet database. Bronchoscopy includes EBUS. Surgical includes mediastinoscopy. Pleural biopsy excluded