Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Efforts
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 4170
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cancer screening; smoking; cancer survivorship; smoking reduction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tobacco smoking is considered the foremost cause of premature death and dramatically affects clinical outcomes and quality of life in cancer patients. However, several studies have highlighted the persistence of smoking after a cancer diagnosis, despite the consequences on treatments’ efficacy and long-term survival rate. Likewise, lung cancer screening for high-risk individuals, when available in the local health system, does not reach all target groups; furthermore, cancer screening is not always a “teachable moment”.
Thus, this Special Issue aims to provide a more comprehensive theoretical framework and evidence-based knowledge about psychological, cognitive, social, relational, and environmental determinants of tobacco smoking behavior in high-risk individuals (subjects enrolled in a screening program for early detection of lung cancer, or cancer patients) and their interaction with physical variables related to nicotine addiction, and with disease onset and progression.
We welcome papers investigating the interrelation among determinants (e.g., psycho-social, environmental, and biological) affecting the risk of low adherence to smoking cessation programs, to cancer screening, and affecting the risk of lung cancer development. Papers studying innovative programs to affect the aforementioned risks are also accepted.
Dr. Marianna Masiero
Dr. Ketti Mazzocco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer screening
- smoking-cessation interventions
- survivorship
- decision making
- cognitive bias in tobacco behaviors
- personality
- emotion regulation
- predictive risk model
- immune response
- e-cigarette