# New tutorial notebook: working with clinical data in IDC

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**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/new-tutorial-notebook-working-with-clinical-data-in-idc/612 "2024-07-10T22:29:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/new-tutorial-notebook-working-with-clinical-data-in-idc/612/1 "2024-07-10T22:29:27Z")

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Many collections in IDC are accompanied by collection-specific metadata describing characteristics of the patient, disease, therapy etc. In IDC we refer to those broadly as “clinical data”.

In a new beginner-level tutorial released today you can learn basics about how to navigate IDC clinical data, and how to find what clinical data, if any, is available for a specific IDC collection!

If this sounds interesting, check out [the notebook](https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons/IDC-Tutorials/blob/master/notebooks/getting_started/exploring_clinical_data.ipynb), and add your comments to the thread if you have any feedback!

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**Author:** ![fedorov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.canceridc.dev/fedorov/32/3_2.png) [@fedorov](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/u/fedorov)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.canceridc.dev/t/new-tutorial-notebook-working-with-clinical-data-in-idc/612/2 "2024-11-15T16:13:59Z")

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As an update to this topic, we released a new notebook that demonstrates how to work with the clinical data for the NLST collection, and how to combine clinical data with imaging data. No logins, and all of the data is available publicly.

Check it out here: [IDC-Tutorials/notebooks/collections\_demos/nlst\_clinical\_data.ipynb at master · ImagingDataCommons/IDC-Tutorials · GitHub](https://github.com/ImagingDataCommons/IDC-Tutorials/blob/master/notebooks/collections_demos/nlst_clinical_data.ipynb)