Episode 602: Australia's new lung cancer screening program - how is it progressing?
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My name is Sally Block, the MJA’s news and online editor.
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The lung cancer screening program was introduced in July last year, designed to help with early intervention for Australia’s deadliest cancer. So how’s it faring?
To discuss this, our special guest today is Professor Fraser Brims who is a consultant respiratory physician at St Charles Gairdener Hospital and Curtin University in Perth.
He has written a perspective for the MJA on the program calling for more investment so it can reach it’s full potential.
He joins me on this podcast.
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