Lung Cancer Screening Program Using Low-dose Tomography and Metabolomic Evaluation in a Public Service.

Implementation of a Lung Cancer Screening Program in a Public Service, Using Low-dose Tomography and Metabolomics Evaluation

Observational study that aims to evaluate the implementation of a lung cancer screening program in a smoker population included in a public heath service.

Patients' clinical data (recruited from the outpatient clinics and wards of Hospital das Clínicas from the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu) will be collected in a specific form, developed to this work, containing the following data: demographic characteristics (name, age, sex, race, profession, marital status, monthly income and education), main diagnosis and diseases associated, assessment of comorbidities using the Charlson Index, and Hospital Health Scale.

Anxiety and Depression (HAD Scale), use of maintenance medications, history of smoking (active or not, calculation of smoking load), body composition (mass index body- BMI calculation) and pulse oximetry measurement. All patients included will undergo low-dose radiation tomography and spirometry. All patients active smokers, who wish to stop smoking, will be referred to the outpatient clinic smoking cessation. Specific measurements will be applied if there is a diagnosis of COPD by spirometry (the BODE Index questionnaires, Dyspnea Index-Medical Modified Research Council, TC6) and patients will be referred to the outpatient clinic specific COPD for follow-up in the service. Subsequently, the anxiety and depression assessments. The tracking protocol will follow the recommendations of repeat the low-dose radiation chest tomography every year, if normal, until complete two years of follow-up. In this case, the patient will be discharged from the tracking. If the patient presents changes in the tomography, follow-up protocol according to the size of the lesions will be carried out. Morbidity and mortality assessment will be carried out in patients diagnosed with lung cancer.

Inclusion Criteria :

Age between 45 and 74 years old; Smoker with a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years or former smoker who has quit smoking for less than 15 years; Never having participated in a lung cancer screening program ; Signing of the free and informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients with chronic diseases (cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal or metabolic) at an advanced stage that limit life expectancy or make it impossible to perform a curative surgical procedure; Patients being treated for tuberculosis or other granulomatous diseases; Patients diagnosed with previous neoplasm(s) that could develop lung metastases; Pregnant women; Patients who, for some reason, are unable to undergo low-dose chest computed tomography; Patients previously submitted to thoracic radiotherapy.