Lung Cancer Screening Implementation Project in the Brazilian Public Health Care System (LUSIP) - LUSIP

Inclusion Criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• In order, to be eligible for the study, patients must fulfill all the following inclusion criteria:
• • Age between ≥50 and ≤80 years.
• • Be a current smoker or have quit 15 years ago or less.
• • Have participated or are currently participating in smoking cessation program.
• • Lifetime smoking exposure equal to or greater than 20 pack-year.
• • Provided signed informed consent (ICF)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• -In order, to be exclude for the study, patients must at least one of the following exclusion criteria:
• • Contraindications to the screening examination: (claustrophobic or weighing more than 130 kgs).
• • Inability to climb 3 stair steps non-stop (36 steps).
• • Disabling dyspnea
• • Symptomatic (with signs and symptoms suspicious of breast cancer lung, namely):
• o pleuritic chest pain
• o rapidly progressive dyspnea of recent onset
• o hemoptysis
• o unexplained hoarseness, lasting more than 1 month.
• o bone pain
• o supraclavicular lymphadenopathy or cervical lymphadenopathy persistent
• o unexplained weight loss of 5% or more of weight in less than 6 months
• o Previous history of malignant neoplasm (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) diagnosed less than 10 years before the date of the interview;
• o Patients with diagnostic of severe psychiatric disease
• o Immunosuppressed by illness or drugs.
• o Subjected to anterior lung resection even when determined due to an etiology other than malignant neoplasia.
• o Person with a serious terminal illness that contraindicates curative lung surgery.