Previously Funded Research

cancer screening (LCS) with low dose radiation computed tomography (LDCT)

substantially reduces lung cancer mortality and is recommended by the US

Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and many other medical organizations.

Despite this, few eligible patients are being screened for lung cancer.

Although the number of patients screened for lung cancer is low, hundreds of

thousands of smokers seek tobacco cessation services nationwide annually. Tobacco cessation counseling may be an important opportunity to educate and

counsel eligible patients on LCS with LDCT. We seek to understand the

perceptions of lung cancer screening among patients in a large regional

tobacco cessation program, and to study the effect of LCS education on

tobacco cessation rates and LDCT utilization in a tobacco cessation

group-class setting. To accomplish these objectives, we will first administer

a brief survey on lung cancer risk perception, knowledge of lung cancer

screening, and barriers to LCS in patients who meet eligibility criteria for

LCS who have recently enrolled in tobacco cessation counseling in Southern

California Kaiser Permanente. Next, we

will incorporate LCS information into tobacco cessation group-classes in

selected Southern California Kaiser Permanente sites and study the effects of

this educational intervention on tobacco cessation and utilization of LDCT

for LCS at 6 months. These data are important so that we can determine if

education on LCS during tobacco cessation impacts tobacco cessation and

whether there is an effect on LCS utilization.