{"id":962531,"date":"2026-11-08T03:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/962531\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T03:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:23:55","slug":"london-hospital-urges-smokers-to-use-lung-screening-program-dont-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/962531\/","title":{"rendered":"London hospital urges smokers to use lung screening program: &#8216;Don&#8217;t wait&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ontario Lung Screening Program seeks to provide lung cancer checks for people aged 55 to 80 who\u2019ve smoked so-called commercial tobacco \u2013 including cigarettes, cigars and loose tobacco \u2013 on a daily basis for 20 years or more, though not necessarily consecutively, and have a valid health card, said the program\u2019s clinical navigator, Caroline Rothwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe whole point of the project is for early detection and in treatment of lung cancer,\u201d Rothwell said.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smokers and ex-smokers are being encouraged to use a provincial screening program available at London Health Sciences Centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,312958],"class_list":["post-962531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-london-health-sciences-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}