{"id":655,"date":"2012-08-03T18:29:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/?p=655"},"modified":"2012-12-10T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T23:22:47","slug":"decamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/2012\/08\/03\/decamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing tools for early detection of lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are leading a $13.6 million study aimed at developing novel technologies for the  early detection of lung cancer. The five-year multi-site, multi-phase  study that will focus on active military personnel and veterans is  funded by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) Lung Cancer  Research Program. We are\u00a0collaborating with military hospitals and Veteran&#8217;s Affairs  medical centers across the country that collectively have the ability to  investigate a large number of patients and gain access to a diverse  variety of researchers and tools. The Detecting Early Lung Cancer Among  Military Personnel (DECAMP) Consortium represents the largest consortium  of researchers dedicated to identifying non-invasive ways to detect  lung cancer early.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Department of Defense-DECAMP\" href=\"http:\/\/cdmrp.army.mil\/pubs\/video\/lc\/spira_video.shtml\">video<\/a> of Dr. Spira describing this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are leading a $13.6 million study aimed at developing novel technologies for the early detection of lung cancer. The five-year multi-site, multi-phase study that will focus on active military personnel and veterans is funded by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) Lung Cancer Research Program. We are\u00a0collaborating with military hospitals and Veteran&#8217;s Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}