Show Me Where Lung and respiratory Lung cancer

Lung cancer explorer

A 3D picture to support a conversation with the clinical team. It does not diagnose or recommend treatment.

Guide

For the clinical team

Set up from the CT or PET-CT report

Start with normal anatomy. Use the CT, PET-CT or bronchoscopy report to show where a confirmed tumour is and how big it is, then show the treatment your team has discussed. Initial tumour settings are examples: replace them with the report details. One tumour is illustrated.

Tumour

Tumour on the model

Changing a tumour setting below also adds it.

Lung

Lobe in the report

Position in the lobe

Longest diameter mm

Use the size on CT or pathology, as written in the report.

Lymph nodes reported as abnormalShows nodes in purple. It does not show how many are involved.

Lobe, position, size and lymph nodes come from the report. The lungs’ shape, the tumour’s rounded shape and the lymph nodes’ positions are schematic. More than one tumour, spread outside the chest and fluid around the lung are not shown.

Views and layers

Use Whole body, Chest and Lung to move closer in the same scene. Show / hide controls the body outline, heart, ribs, airways, a cut through the lung, measurements and labels. Use Snapshot to collect views for the patient’s sheet.

LungsTumourTreatment shownLymph nodesHeart

Drag to turn · scroll or pinch to zoom

Slice at the tumour

A schematic slice through the chest at the tumour’s level, seen from the feet like a CT scan: front at the top, the patient’s right on your left. This is not the patient’s scan.

In plain words

Key measurements

Tumour values come from the report. The lungs’ shape is an average adult’s; the tumour’s shape is simplified.

Treatment options

Show the operation your team has discussed

Choose a picture of the planned operation. The model does not select a treatment.

Show

Chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted drugs and conventional radiotherapy are not shown. Your team can explain them.

Share with the patient

Make a picture sheet to send

Set up each view you want, then press Snapshot above the model. You can add up to 4. If you add none, the current view is used.

Prepared for (optional)

Lung cancer nurse or key worker (optional)

Note for the patient (optional)

Include the plain-words summary Include key measurements Include the operation shown Add a help and support page: questions to ask, who to contact and words you may hear Add a page explaining the labels in plain English Add a QR code that reopens this picture (holds the model settings only, never the name or notes)

Names and notes typed here never leave this device and are forgotten when you close the page. Check the sheet before sending, and use your organisation's approved secure route.

For the patient and family

Help and support

Questions to ask, words used in clinic and trusted information from the NHS and lung cancer charities.

Open help and support

This is a simplified teaching model of one lung tumour. It does not interpret scans, diagnose, stage cancer or predict treatment effects. More than one tumour, spread outside the chest, fluid around the lung and the exact lung segments are not shown. Important information · Nothing is saved.