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£ 70m funding for 10 cancer digitization projects
Adrian O & # 39; Dowd
Friday, February 8, 2019
A project involving NHS lung cancer scanning trucks, operating from supermarket car parks, is being rolled out across the country to strengthen early detection of the disease.
NHS England announced today that approximately £ 70 million over four years will fund 10 projects to control those most at risk, inviting them to a technical breath test and a chest scanner. on site including mobile clinics.
This targeted screening will help improve survival rates by visiting some of the regions with the highest lung cancer mortality rates, NHS England said. The deployment could reach about 600,000 people over four years, detect about 3,400 cancers and save hundreds of lives.
Studies have shown that CT scans can significantly reduce lung cancer mortality.
The recently published NHS long term plan His ambition was to help 55,000 more people survive his cancer. To do this, the plan included increasing the number of cancers diagnosed in stages 1 and 2 from half to three quarters of patients.
The NHS initially extends the program to 10 new regions of the country, based on pioneering Manchester and Liverpool programs.
The projects will help identify more cancers quickly and detect a range of other health issues, including COPD, the NHS England said.
The programs provide that people aged 55 to 74 who have been identified as being at increased risk for lung cancer will be invited to a lung health check and will be offered a chest CT scan, as appropriate. This badysis could take place in a mobile unit or in a hospital.
Most, but not all, systems will use mobile scanning units, depending on local needs.
An experimental program currently in Liverpool is targeting clinics in different parts of the city and, where appropriate, patients are referred to a hospital for badysis.
In two years, they discovered and treated more than 40 new cases of lung cancer, including more than 75% at an early stage of the disease, while in general 70% of lung cancer cases are diagnosed than at an advanced stage in Liverpool, when treatment is more difficult.
The first London mobile unit opened at the end of last year and is currently moving between supermarket car parks. More than 7,000 Londoners should be invited to a lung health checkup under this program.
The Manchester project scanned 2,541 patients and found 65 lung cancers affecting 61 patients. He has also detected a range of other heart and lung problems.
Cally Palmer, National Cancer Director at NHS England, said: "Early detection of more cancers is a cornerstone of NHS long term plan saving 55,000 additional lives each year and targeted lung health checks is one of the first projects to be implemented after publication.
"These new projects will save lives – early diagnosis of cancer is crucial because it is easier to treat than saving lives, but it also means that thousands of patients will avoid life-changing treatments."
The new projects will initially last four years and NHS England will then evaluate the results for use as a basis for further deployment.
The areas to be financed will be:
- Northeast Alliance and Cumbria Against Cancer – Newcastle Gateshead CCG
- Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance – Tameside and Glossop CCG
- Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance – Knowsley and Halton GCC
- Alliance against cancer in Lancashire and South Cumbria – Blackburn with Darwen CCG and Blackpool CCG
- West Yorkshire Cancer Alliance – GCC North Kirklees
- South Yorkshire Cancer Alliance – Doncaster GCC
- Humber, Coastal and Valley Cancer Alliance – Hull CCG
- Eastern Cancer Alliance of England – Thurrock CCG and Luton CCG
- Midlands Cancer Alliance – Corby CCG and Mansfield and Ashfield CCG
- Wesbad Cancer Alliance – Southampton GCC
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