A Response to the Letter to the Editor: "Quality Performance Indicators for Lung Cancer Screening: Towards the Next Levels?"

Martin C Tammemägi; Andrea Borondy-Kitts; John F Field; Anant Mohan; Anna Kerpel-Fronius; Luigi Ventura; Dawei Yang; Long Jiang; Coenraad F N Koegelenberg; Milena Cavic; Haval Balata; Lucia Viola; Ricardo Sales Dos Santos; Witold Ryzman; David F Yankelevitz; Stephen Lam; Ella A Kazerooni; Rudolf Huber

doi:10.1016/j.jtho.2025.03.040

A Response to the Letter to the Editor: "Quality Performance Indicators for Lung Cancer Screening: Towards the Next Levels?"

J Thorac Oncol. 2025 Jun;20(6):e69-e71. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2025.03.040.

Authors

Martin C Tammemägi¹, Andrea Borondy-Kitts², John F Field³, Anant Mohan⁴, Anna Kerpel-Fronius⁵, Luigi Ventura⁶, Dawei Yang⁷, Long Jiang⁸, Coenraad F N Koegelenberg⁹, Milena Cavic¹⁰, Haval Balata¹¹, Lucia Viola¹², Ricardo Sales Dos Santos¹³, Witold Ryzman¹⁴, David F Yankelevitz¹⁵, Stephen Lam¹⁶, Ella A Kazerooni¹⁷, Rudolf Huber¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: martin.tammemagi@brocku.ca.
² Rescue Lung Society, Amesbury, Massachusetts.
³ University of Liverpool, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁴ All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
⁵ National Korányi Institute for Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary.
⁶ Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom; School of Medicine and Population Health, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
⁷ Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
⁸ Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
⁹ Stellenbosch University & Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁰ Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
¹¹ Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
¹² Fundación Neumológica Colombiana, Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Bogotá, Colombia.
¹³ Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, San Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁴ Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland.
¹⁵ Icahn School of Medicine, New York, New York.
¹⁶ British Columbia Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁷ University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
¹⁸ Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, German Centre for Lung Research, Munich, Germany.

PMID: 40484491
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2025.03.040

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