Saved By the Scan<\/a> program. Patients were reached through email, social media, newspaper advertising, direct mail, billboards, bus shelters and search advertising.<\/p>\n\u201cThe stakes of early detection are the whole argument for screening,\u201d explained senior author Dr. Manmeet Ahluwalia, chief of medical oncology, chief scientific officer and deputy director, Wertheim Cancer Institute, and professor of Oncological Sciences at FIU Medicine. \u201cWhen lung cancer is caught while still confined to the lung, five-year survival is roughly 60-65%, compared with under 10% once it has spread to distant sites.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Sharp Rise in Screenings<\/p>\n
The results were striking. The study spanned 2019 through 2023, a period that included a pandemic-related decline in lung cancer screening in 2020. After the Saved by the Scan awareness campaign launched in late 2021, screening rates improved markedly. The number of annual screenings rose from 2,185 in 2021 to 3,285 in 2023, a 50% jump in just two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are making an impact,\u201d Ahluwalia said. \u201cThe awareness gap is real and fixable. One study showed that 74.6% of Hispanic respondents believed that lung cancer could be prevented, but only 44.1% knew screening existed. Once informed, 90.7% wanted screening.\u201d In an area that is 68% Hispanic and where nearly one in five residents is linguistically isolated from care, the need is particularly acute, he added.<\/p>\n
Among the outreach methods, email performed best, likely because Baptist-registered patients who already had a documented smoking history were targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meeting patients where they are \u201cWe are missing many high-risk patients,\u201d said co-first author and second-year medical student…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-393917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}