Commenting on the significance of the
research, Dr Pilar Garrido, head of the Thoracic Tumour Section of the
Medical Oncology Department at Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, said: «Lung cancer is the
most common cancer globally, but debate about the optimal screening strategy is ongoing and
current selection criteria are based only on age and pack - years.
Current investigations of
research experiments by a surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macciarini, are active for allegations of misconduct at the Karolinska Institute, the
most prominent
medical research center in Sweden.