Stephen H Bradley: Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation recommendations on improving symptomatic lung cancer
Stephen H Bradley, Senior Lecturer at the The University of Sheffield, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Great to see Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation recommendations on improving symptomatic lung cancer diagnosis featured in The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph and BBC News R4’s World at One on 27th Dec.
The recommendations are published in British Journal of General Practice.
Lung Cancer screening for high risk (asymptomatic) people is on the way, but for some time to come most people will continue to be diagnosed because of symptoms.
The media coverage highlighted call to enable more patients with possible lung cancer symptoms to arrange tests like chest x-ray, but other issues considered included calls to:
– Raise and maintain awareness of symptoms, including amongst those who have not smoked if persistent symptoms (who have a low risk, but non-smokers account for 10-15% of cases)
– Open up data on chest x-ray use by General Practices to help understand how often these tests are being used
– Get greater clarity for GPs on when to use direct access CT.”
Achieving earlier diagnosis of symptomatic lung cancer
Authors: Stephen H Bradley et al.
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