Exclusive: Lung Foundation Australia is calling for a $153 million pilot lung cancer screening program to be funded in the October federal budget | marywardy
A federal advisory committee is reconsidering its recommendation against a lung cancer screening program, as experts say scans for high-risk groups could save 12,000 lives over the next decade.
Lung cancer is also Australia’s most deadly cancer, with 8693 deaths in 2021. The five-year survival rate is just 20 per cent, the lowest of the country’s five most common cancers. Modelling by PriceWaterhouseCoopers commissioned by Lung Foundation Australia showed screening would prevent 12,000 lung cancer deaths over a 10-year period.
“From our perspective, having confirmation that you don’t have cancer is a positive outcome, not a negative one,” Brooke said. Concord Hospital respiratory physician Professor Lucy Morgan, who is chair of the foundation’s board, said lung cancer overwhelmingly affected lower socioeconomic communities. Indigenous Australians are twice as likely to be diagnosed as non-Indigenous Australians, and survival rates in remote or regional areas are 12 per cent lower than in major cities.
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