Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and delayed detection contributes to poor outcomes. Primary care plays a crucial role in early diagnosis, but detecting lung cancer early remains challenging for general practitioners (GPs). Therefore, the aim of this scoping revie...
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| author | Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis Izolde Bouloukaki Antonios Christodoulakis Antonia Aravantinou-Karlatou Ioanna Tsiligianni |
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| description | Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and delayed detection contributes to poor outcomes. Primary care plays a crucial role in early diagnosis, but detecting lung cancer early remains challenging for general practitioners (GPs). Therefore, the aim of this scoping review was to identify optimal strategies and pathways for lung cancer screening (LCS) in primary care settings globally. We conducted a scoping review by searching PubMed, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library for relevant studies published in the past 10 years. Our keywords included “lung cancer”, “primary care”, “early detection”, “screening”, “best practices”, and “pathways”. We included randomized controlled trials, cross-sectional studies, and cohort studies focused on lung cancer screening in primary care. We extracted data on study characteristics, screening pathways, and key findings. We identified 18 studies that met our inclusion criteria. Important strategies for LCS included the use of shared decision-making tools, electronic health record (HER) prompts, risk prediction models, community outreach, and integration with smoking cessation programs. Barriers to implementation included the lack of provider familiarity with guidelines, time constraints, and patient factors. Healthcare professionals and policy makers in primary care settings can leverage this information to integrate the most effective screening strategies into their care, thus enhancing early detection rates and subsequently reducing global lung cancer morbidity and mortality. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-570f8be56f354149b9c097a3dc3cc1622025-01-24T13:28:20ZengMDPI AGCurrent Oncology1198-00521718-77292024-12-01321810.3390/curroncol32010008Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping ReviewEmmanouil K. Symvoulakis0Izolde Bouloukaki1Antonios Christodoulakis2Antonia Aravantinou-Karlatou3Ioanna Tsiligianni4Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, GreeceDepartment of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, GreeceDepartment of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, GreeceDepartment of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, GreeceDepartment of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, GreeceLung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and delayed detection contributes to poor outcomes. Primary care plays a crucial role in early diagnosis, but detecting lung cancer early remains challenging for general practitioners (GPs). Therefore, the aim of this scoping review was to identify optimal strategies and pathways for lung cancer screening (LCS) in primary care settings globally. We conducted a scoping review by searching PubMed, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library for relevant studies published in the past 10 years. Our keywords included “lung cancer”, “primary care”, “early detection”, “screening”, “best practices”, and “pathways”. We included randomized controlled trials, cross-sectional studies, and cohort studies focused on lung cancer screening in primary care. We extracted data on study characteristics, screening pathways, and key findings. We identified 18 studies that met our inclusion criteria. Important strategies for LCS included the use of shared decision-making tools, electronic health record (HER) prompts, risk prediction models, community outreach, and integration with smoking cessation programs. Barriers to implementation included the lack of provider familiarity with guidelines, time constraints, and patient factors. Healthcare professionals and policy makers in primary care settings can leverage this information to integrate the most effective screening strategies into their care, thus enhancing early detection rates and subsequently reducing global lung cancer morbidity and mortality.https://www.mdpi.com/1718-7729/32/1/8lung cancerscreeningprimary carereview |
| spellingShingle | Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis Izolde Bouloukaki Antonios Christodoulakis Antonia Aravantinou-Karlatou Ioanna Tsiligianni Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review Current Oncology lung cancer screening primary care review |
| title | Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review |
| title_full | Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review |
| title_fullStr | Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review |
| title_short | Optimal Pathways to Lung Cancer Screening in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review |
| title_sort | optimal pathways to lung cancer screening in primary care settings a scoping review |
| topic | lung cancer screening primary care review |
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