Patients with IPF and lung cancer: diagnosis and management

Affiliations

• ¹ First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, "Sotiria", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming", Athens 16672, Greece. Electronic address: argyrios.tzouvelekis@fleming.gr.
• ² Section of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
• ³ Interstitial and Rare Lung Disease Unit, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ⁴ Regional Referral Centre for Rare Lung Diseases, University Hospital "Policlinico", Department of Clinical and Respiratory Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
• ⁵ First Academic Department of Pneumonology, Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, "Sotiria", Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ⁶ Service de Pneumologie A, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg University Hospital, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Germany.