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
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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