Important steps towards a big change for lung health: a joint approach by the European Respiratory Society, the European Society of Radiology and their partners to facilitate implementation of the European Union's new recommendations on lung cancer screening

Brian Ward; Martina Koziar Vašáková; Carlos Robalo Cordeiro; Arzu Yorgancioğlu; Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko; Torsten Gerriet Blum; Hans-Ulrich Kauczor; Miroslav Samarzija; Claudia Henschke; Craig Wheelock; Jonathan Grigg; Zorana Jovanovic Andersen; Vladimír Koblížek; Ondřej Májek; Mikaela Odemyr; Pippa Powell; Luis M Seijo

doi:10.1183/23120541.00026-2023

Important steps towards a big change for lung health: a joint approach by the European Respiratory Society, the European Society of Radiology and their partners to facilitate implementation of the European Union's new recommendations on lung cancer screening

ERJ Open Res. 2023 May 9;9(3):00026-2023. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00026-2023. eCollection 2023 May.

Authors

Brian Ward^{1

2}, Martina Koziar Vašáková^{3

2}, Carlos Robalo Cordeiro⁴, Arzu Yorgancioğlu⁵, Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko⁶, Torsten Gerriet Blum⁷, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor⁸, Miroslav Samarzija⁹, Claudia Henschke¹⁰, Craig Wheelock^{11

12}, Jonathan Grigg¹³, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen¹⁴, Vladimír Koblížek¹⁵, Ondřej Májek¹⁶, Mikaela Odemyr¹⁷, Pippa Powell¹⁸, Luis M Seijo^{19

20}

Affiliations

¹ Advocacy Department, European Respiratory Society, Brussels, Belgium.
² These authors contributed equally.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Thomayer University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁴ Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, Pulmonology Service, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁵ Chest Disease, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
⁶ Department of Genetics and Clinical Immunology, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland.
⁷ Department of Pneumology, Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany.
⁸ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, German Center of Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁹ Clinical Department for Respiratory Diseases Jordanovac, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA.
¹¹ Unit of Integrative Metabolomics, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹³ Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
¹⁴ Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁵ University Hospital, Pulmonary Department, Charles University, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
¹⁶ National Screening Centre, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹⁷ Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
¹⁸ European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK.
¹⁹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain.
²⁰ Ciberes, Madrid, Spain.

Abstract

Enormous progress has been made on the epic journey towards implementation of lung cancer screening in Europe. A breakthrough for lung health has been achieved with the EU proposal for a Council recommendation on cancer screening. https://bit.ly/3J4O0Jb.

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