Health

Irish lung cancer screening pilot to get underway

The pilot will involve targeting more deprived communities where smoking and lung cancer rates tend to be higher

Almost 2,700 people are diagnosed with lung cancer each year in Ireland, and it is the 5th most common cancer in Ireland. Picture: Getty

A lung cancer screening pilot will get underway in Ireland this year, as part of a wider European Union-funded lung screening programme, the Business Post can reveal.

Strengthening the screening of Lung Cancer in Europe (SOLACE) is a new health project funded under the EU4Health programme.

The EU wide programme, which will be launched next week, will promote the use of Low-Dose Computed Tomography scans (LDCT) as means of screening for lung cancer.

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