Juan Carlos Trujillo

Cargo

Clinical Head of the Thoracic Surgery Department at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, co-coordinator of the CASSANDRA lung cancer screening project and director of Integrated Research Projects in Thoracic Oncology at the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR)

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR)

Topics

cancer, screening

Mass cancer screening: advantages, disadvantages and current situation

screening

Mass cancer screening: advantages, disadvantages and current situation

SMC Spain

On the occasion of World Cancer Research Day on 24 September, the Science Media Centre Spain organised an information session on mass screening. At the meeting, researchers Adrian Aginagalde, Isabel Portillo and Juan Carlos Trujillo explained how mass screening is studied, analysed its advantages and disadvantages, explained how its implementation is decided and what new developments we can expect.