Personalised Lung Cancer Screening (PLuS) study to assess the importance of coexisting chronic conditions to clinical practice and policy: protocol for a multicentre observational study

• Yi Guo,
• Dongyu Zhang,
• Rafael Meza,
• Jihyoun Jeon,
• Dejana Braithwaite,
• Gerard A Silvestri,
• Michael K Gould,
• Jiang Bian,
• Bruno Hochhegger,
• Shama D Karanth,
• Christopher G Slatore,
• Martin Tammemagi,
• Mattthew Schabath,
• Meghann Wheeler,
• Frederic J Kaye

Affiliations

Yi Guo

Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Dongyu Zhang

1 Department of Oncology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Rafael Meza

Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Jihyoun Jeon

School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Dejana Braithwaite

Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Gerard A Silvestri

Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Michael K Gould

MD, MS

Jiang Bian

5 Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Bruno Hochhegger

Department of Radiology, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Shama D Karanth

Cancer Center, UF Health, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Christopher G Slatore

Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care, Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

Martin Tammemagi

Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Mattthew Schabath

Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Center Inc, Tampa, Florida, USA

Meghann Wheeler

Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Frederic J Kaye

Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA