The American College of Radiology (ACR) has received a $100,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to promote early lung cancer screening.
The 12-month grant will enable the ACR to expand its ACR Lung Cancer Screening Registry to include a module that improves management of incidental pulmonary nodules (IPNs), ACR said.
“Among all incidentally detected findings on radiology examinations, IPNs are the most common significant — or potentially significant — finding requiring follow-up. Yet, sadly, workflows and processes are not in place to systematically make sure appropriate follow-up occurs,” noted Ella Kazerooni, MD, a physician co-advisor on the project, in a news release.
ACR is one of seven recipients receiving $100,000 in a grant program aiming to assist medical specialty societies in developing diagnostic performance feedback through clinical registries. The grant program is overseen by the University of California, San Francisco and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, ACR added.
![Axial images from unenhanced calcium score cardiac CT (left) and curved planar reformation images from CT angiography (right) show that higher long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with greater coronary artery calcium and more obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Top row: Images in a 68-year-old male patient with higher 10-year mean ambient air pollution exposure (7.9 μg/m3 for particulate matter measuring ≤2.5 μm in diameter [PM2.5] and 17.4 parts per billion [ppb] for NO2) with extensive CAD (coronary artery calcium score [CACS] >1,000 and obstructive CAD [≥70% diameter stenosis]). Bottom row: Images in a 57-year-old female patient with lower 10-year mean ambient air pollution exposure (6.3 μg/m3 for PM2.5 and 4.6 ppb for NO2) with no CAD (CACS = 0 and no obstructive stenosis).](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/06/hanneman.r6SMLzkezo.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
