Smokers and ex-smokers are being encouraged to use a provincial screening program available at London Health Sciences Centre to help detect lung cancer more quickly.
The Ontario Lung Screening Program seeks to provide lung cancer checks for people aged 55 to 80 who’ve smoked so-called commercial tobacco – including cigarettes, cigars and loose tobacco – on a daily basis for 20 years or more, though not necessarily consecutively, and have a valid health card, said the program’s clinical navigator, Caroline Rothwell.
“The whole point of the project is for early detection and in treatment of lung cancer,” Rothwell said.