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"Risk homeostasis"or "teachable moment"? the interaction between smoking behavior and lung cancer screening in the Mayo Lung Project
Lu Shi 1
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Department of Health Services, 650 Charles E. Young Drive S. 61-253 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90099, USA
 
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UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E. Young Drive S. 46-081C CHS Los Angeles, CA 90099 USA
 
 
Submission date: 2010-04-29
 
 
Acceptance date: 2011-01-24
 
 
Publication date: 2011-01-24
 
 
Corresponding author
Lu Shi   

Department of Health Services, 650 Charles E. Young Drive S. 61-253 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90099, USA
 
 
Tobacco Induced Diseases 2011;9(January):2
 
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The chest X-ray lung cancer screening program of Mayo Lung Project (MLP) yielded mixed results of improved lung case survival but no improvement in lung cancer mortality. This paper analyzes the smoking patterns of study participants in order to examine possible behavioral ramifications of periodic lung cancer screening. Using a longitudinal difference-of-difference model, we compared the smoking behavior, in terms of current smoker status among all subjects and the intensity of smoking among those continuing smokers, between those who received periodic lung cancer screening and those who received usual-care. In both arms of this lung cancer screening trial, there was a sizable decline in cigarette smoking one year after participants received baseline prevalence screening. There was no significant difference in current smoker status between the intervention group receiving periodic Xray screening and the control group receiving usual care. While we detect that the continuing smokers in the intervention group smoked more than their counterparts in the control group, the magnitude of the difference is not sufficient to explain a substantial difference in lung cancer incidence between the two groups. Our study shows that periodic lung screening in MLP did not decrease smoking behavior beyond the observed decline following the initial prevalence screening conducted at baseline for both the intervention and control groups. Our results also indicate, paradoxically, that participants assigned to the intervention group smoked more cigarettes per day on average than those in the control group. Lung cancer screening programs need additional cessation components to sustain the abstinence effect typically observed following initial lung screening.
 
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