Important steps towards a big change for lung health: a joint approach by the European Respiratory Society, the European Society of Radiology and their partners to facilitate implementation of the European Union's new recommendations on lung cancer screening

• Brian Ward,
• Martina Koziar Vašáková,
• Carlos Robalo Cordeiro,
• Arzu Yorgancioğlu,
• Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko,
• Torsten Gerriet Blum,
• Hans-Ulrich Kauczor,
• Miroslav Samarzija,
• Claudia Henschke,
• Craig Wheelock,
• Jonathan Grigg,
• Zorana Jovanovic Andersen,
• Vladimír Koblížek,
• Ondřej Májek,
• Mikaela Odemyr,
• Pippa Powell,
• Luis M. Seijo

Affiliations

Brian Ward

Advocacy Department, European Respiratory Society, Brussels, Belgium

Martina Koziar Vašáková

Department of Respiratory Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Thomayer University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

Carlos Robalo Cordeiro

Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, Pulmonology Service, Coimbra, Portugal

Arzu Yorgancioğlu

Chest Disease, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey

Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko

Department of Genetics and Clinical Immunology, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland

Torsten Gerriet Blum

Department of Pneumology, Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, German Center of Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany

Miroslav Samarzija

Clinical Department for Respiratory Diseases Jordanovac, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Claudia Henschke

Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA

Craig Wheelock

Unit of Integrative Metabolomics, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jonathan Grigg

Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Vladimír Koblížek

University Hospital, Pulmonary Department, Charles University, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

Ondřej Májek

National Screening Centre, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Mikaela Odemyr

Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Pippa Powell

European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK

Luis M. Seijo

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid, Spain