The CASSANDRA project (Cancer Screening, Smoking Cessation, AND Respiratory Assessment) is a project led by SEPAR whose main coordinators are Dr. Luis Seijo, a pulmonologist at the Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, and Dr. Juan Carlos Trujillo-Reyes, a thoracic surgeon at the Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau and Coordinator of the Thoracic Oncology Area, in addition to the collaboration of a large number of professionals with expertise in lung cancer screening. Despite its proven efficacy, Spain does not yet have a unified lung cancer screening protocol. The aim of the CASSANDRA project is to initiate a national screening program that can join forces with existing smoking cessation programs in Spain, which have proven to be insufficient in reducing the number of people affected by lung cancer. CASSANDRA aims to analyze the feasibility of implementing a lung cancer screening program in Spain implemented in the public health system and carry out a cost-effectiveness analysis
CASSANDRA aims to be the first lung cancer screening pilot project in Spain. A project to assess the feasibility of implementation as well as to look for models that allow a better selection of the cases to be screened.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40,000
Low dose CT scan in active smokers or ex-smokers with an age between 50 and 75 years old
Incidence of lung cancer in early stage in a high risk population during a lung cancer screening programme. We measure this outcome depending on the CT results.
Lung cancer screening
Time frame: 0 years until 5 years
The number of patients who quit smoking during a lung cancer screening program. We will measure this parameter by recording smoking cessation during the 5 years.
Tobacco Cessation
Time frame: 0 years until 5 years
The number of patients who present other diseases associated with smoking such as emphysema, COPD or coronary pathology. We will measure this parameter by means of spirometry and CT scan.
Respiratory assessment
Time frame: 0 years until 5 years
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