Health-related quality of life and anxiety in the PAN-CAN lung cancer screening cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The impact of lung cancer screening with low-dose chest CT (LDCT) on participants' anxiety levels and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important consideration in the implementation of such programmes. We aimed to describe changes in anxiety and HRQoL in a high-risk Canadian cohort undergoing LDCT lung cancer screening.

Methods

2537 subjects who had 2% or greater lung cancer risk over 6 years using a risk prediction tool were recruited from eight centres across Canada in the Pan-Canadian Early Detection of Lung Cancer Study (2008-2010). We compared HRQoL and anxiety levels before and after screening of 1237 participants with LDCT (excluding a subset of 1300 participants who also underwent autofluorescence bronchoscopy screening), as well as after invest

SUBMITTER: Taghizadeh N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6340441 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature