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One-stop lung screening and smoking cessation advice works

Offering ‘stop smoking’ support as part of a national lung cancer screening programme resulted in nearly nine out of ten people agreeing to an immediate consultation and three-quarters accepting longer term support.…

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Four-protein biomarker test helps personalise lung cancer screening

Integrating a panel of four circulating protein biomarkers with a lung cancer risk model identified individuals at high risk of developing fatal lung cancer. The study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology,…

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Study provides motivation for European policy makers to implement comprehensive tobacco control

Fully implementing tobacco control policies across Europe would avoid an estimated 1.65 million lung cancer cases over the next 20 years. The modelling study, published in the May issue of The Lancet…