Lung cancer is Australia’s deadliest cancer. When patients develop symptoms like coughing it is generally no longer curable by surgery or other treatments.

The National Lung Cancer Screening Program will begin next year and will involve routine scanning in the hope of catching the disease in its earliest stages.

More information, including who’s eligible for the Program, is available here

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Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Macquarie University Hospital, Alvin Ing told the MJA the screening program could push the cure rate for lung cancer to as high as 90%,