Imagen Dr. Javier Zulueta Francés, departamento de Neumologia

meet Dr. Javier Zulueta Francés

Head of Pneumology Department
Codirector of Lung Cancer Area
Pneumology Specialist
Area of Expertise: Diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer

training andProfessional Career

Graduated (1986) and was awarded his doctorate (1998) in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid. He specialised in Internal Medicine at St. Luke's Hospital, a teaching centre in the Case Western University of Cleveland (USA).

He subspecialised in Pneumology and Intensive Medicine at the New England Medical Center, in the Tufts University Hospital, in Boston (USA).

He now works as the Head of the Pneumology Department at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.

Codirector of Lung Cancer Area.

Research Areas
His main research areas include the early detection of lung cancer and pulmonary emphysema, as well as the cause and effect relation between both diseases. He is the principal researcher on the I-ELCAP study, a multicentre international study for early detection of lung cancer using thoracic CT scans with a low radiation dosage, which began in 2008 and to date, have been used on more than 60,000 individuals.

Areas of interest
  • Early detection of lung cancer
  • General Pneumology
  • COPD
  • Bronchial Asthma
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Chronic Cough

El TAC de baja dosis de radiación (escáner) detecta el cáncer de pulmón en estadio 1 en el 85% de los casos según un estudio internacional, en el que participa la Clínica Universidad de Navarra, que aconseja la realización de la prueba anualmente.
Conduct an annual preventive CT is effective in reducing deaths from lung cancer. [Video only available in Spanish]

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ACTIVITY

As an educator

Professor of  "Respiratory Diseases" at the University of Navarra Faculty of Medicine

As a researcher

He has made multiple presentations at national and international conferences.

Latest scientific publications

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Principal researcher on the I-ELCAP study
He is the Principal Researcher on the I-ELCAP study, a multicentre international study for early detection of lung cancer

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Javier Zulueta Francés Director Pneumology department

Dr. Javier Zulueta Francés

Director Pneumology department
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The cost of conducting early detection programmes with chest CT is not excessive for society, because early treatment of lung cancer is much less expensive than in advanced phases".

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