At-risk individuals in UK may add a CT scan to their grocery list
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) will be introducing an initiative to make it easier for individuals to get screened for lung cancer. While not quite door-to-door service, the plan will park mobile CT scanning units in supermarket parking lots.
“NHS cancer care is the best it’s ever been, with cancer survival increasing every year,” said Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England. “Over the next 18 months the NHS will be rolling out new mobile and home screening kits to detect cancers earlier, when they can be treated best.”
A previous program in Manchester boosted early rates of detection from 20 percent to 80 percent.
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