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Smoking Cessation Intervention Within the Framework of a Lung Cancer Screening Program: Preliminary Results and Clinical Perspectives from the “Cosmos-II” Trial

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Data coming from the literature investigating the effectiveness and interaction between smoking cessation (SC) and lung cancer screening (LCScr) are still sparse and inconsistent. Herein, we report the preliminary results from the ongoing lung cancer screening trial (“Cosmos-II”) focusing our analysis on the inter-relationship between the SC program and the LCScr.

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We thank AIRC to support the “Cosmos-II Trial”.

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Filippo Lococo and Francesco Carleo have received Grant support as “Young Investigator” from the “Umberto Veronesi Foundation”. The other Authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Filippo, L., Principe, R., Cesario, A. et al. Smoking Cessation Intervention Within the Framework of a Lung Cancer Screening Program: Preliminary Results and Clinical Perspectives from the “Cosmos-II” Trial. Lung 193, 147–149 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-014-9661-y

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