In this context, the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) has just launched a pilot study (entitled “Cascade”), which consists of inviting 2,400 smokers or ex-smokers, aged 50 to 74, to get screened. They must be from Paris, Rennes, Grenoble or Béthune, and not show symptoms of the disease, because it is a question of prevention.
“For two years, they will be offered three scans ‘low dose of radiation’ and medical follow-up”explains Marie-Pierre Revel, head of department at the Cochin hospital, who oversees this project. “In France as in Spain, the epidemiological situation among women is extremely worrying with an increase in the mortality rate due to this cancer of 3% every year”she insists, justifying the choice of an exclusively female target.