Cristina Candal-Pedreira, Alberto Ruano-Ravina, Virginia Calvo de Juan, Manuel Cobo, José Manuel Trigo, Enric Carcereny, Marc Cucurull, Rafael López Castro, Eduardo Solís García, Amparo Sánchez-Gastaldo, Bartomeu Massutí, Delvys Rodríguez-Abreu, Anna Estival, María Guirado Risueño, María Pamiés Ramón, Rosario García Campelo, Guillermo Alonso-Jáudenes, Carlos Camps, Edel Del Barco Morillo, Clara González Ojea, Manuel Dómine, Alfredo Sanchez-Hernandez, Joaquím Bosch-Barrera, María Ángeles Sala González, Mariano Provencio
OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to ascertain the percentage of Spanish lung cancer cases that would fulfil the lung cancer screening inclusion criteria recommended by the United States Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) in 2013 and 2021. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out. All lung cancer cases registered in the Thoracic Tumor Registry with data on date of birth, date of diagnosis, smoking habit, number of pack-years and time elapsed since smoking cessation were included...
November 2023: ERJ Open Research