Late-Stage Presentation and Diagnostic Gaps in Romanian Lung Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Tertiary Center Analysis with Implications for Scalable Screening
Liviu Bîlteanu, Antonia-Ruxandra Folea, Vlad-Luca Moga, Bogdan Cosmin Tănase, Steluța Bărăscu, Cristian Pavel, Diana Troncotă, Matei Celea, Octavian Buiu, Andreea-Iren Șerban, Rodica Anghel · 2026
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Liviu Bîlteanu and co-authors study late lung cancer diagnosis in 2026 at a major institute in Bucharest, Romania. Lung cancer kills more people there than any other cancer, and the country has no organized screening program. Most patients arrive with advanced disease.
The team reviewed close to four thousand patients. Over four in five staged cases were already at stage three or four. Records also had big gaps, with smoking history missing in most files. When the team tested standard screening rules on their data, the rules missed about seven in ten early-stage cases. Simple age-only rules caught nearly everyone but would swamp services. The authors call for risk models tailored to their population.
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| CREATOR | Liviu Bîlteanu, Antonia-Ruxandra Folea, Vlad-Luca Moga, Bogdan Cosmin Tănase, Steluța Bărăscu, Cristian Pavel, Diana Troncotă, Matei Celea, Octavian Buiu, Andreea-Iren Șerban, Rodica Anghel |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 96 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |