The Mobile Lung Cancer Scanning Trucks Service Being Rolled Up In England

The NHS England rolled up a program that setting up mobile lung cancer trucks over car parks area in supermarket across England to detect the disease, the mobile lung cancer scan would be placed over area that likely having highest death rate caused of lung cancer 

The target would be around aged 55-74 that bearing an increased risk of lung cancer specially for smoker and ex smoker to run a lung health check and then chest CT scan once required

The programme would be concerned into 10 areas to boost early detection and the officials quite in hope from £70 million lung health targeted scheme could reach up to 600,000 people by this 4 years, to increase the survival rate mostly over worst hit area in England

England puts serious concern to beat this lung cancer as this is a devastating disease that took 35,000 lives for every year 

The mobile lung cancer scan programme aimed to provide further information and to find out in regard to low dose of CT scan for increased risk of lung cancer will work practically

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As been resulted from 15,000 people on low radiation dose CT scan once running lung screening, able to reduce the percentage of deaths by 26% by improving early lung cancer detection rates 

The recent study that took place in Manchester by total of 2,541 patients that being scanned it's about 65 patients detected on having lung cancer 

Apart of it the program that rolled out in Manchester also resulting there are other serious disease of heart and lungs conditions plus there also kind of COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The lung cancer check program is part of NHS long-term form to beat the cancer disease, part of first project that being rolled out due to the plan since January

Article source - Cancer Research UK
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