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

Other illness

• 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):
  • pleuritic chest pain
  • rapidly progressive dyspnea of recent onset
  • hemoptysis
  • unexplained hoarseness, lasting more than 1 month.
  • bone pain
  • supraclavicular lymphadenopathy or cervical lymphadenopathy persistent
  • unexplained weight loss of 5% or more of weight in less than 6 months
  • Previous history of malignant neoplasm (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) diagnosed less than 10 years before the date of the interview;
  • Patients with diagnostic of severe psychiatric disease
  • Immunosuppressed by illness or drugs.
  • Subjected to anterior lung resection even when determined due to an etiology other than malignant neoplasia.
  • Person with a serious terminal illness that contraindicates curative lung surgery.

• 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)