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Did Screening Save His Life?
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An MP talking on the radio the other day mentioned that he had part of a lung removed following a diagnosis of cancer. I'd guess that he'd been paying for his health checks and would consider the money paid for them well spent.
If he'd not been in a position to do that would his prospects have been bleaker?
If he'd not been in a position to do that would his prospects have been bleaker?
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Depends.
If the lung cancer was a spread from another organ e.g kidney, then the outcome would have been the same whatever or whenever it was diagnosed.
However......if it was a lung cancer in it's own right and not spread from an other organ, then you pose an interesting question.
At one time in the UK there was a screening programme for lung cancer and this picked up many cases and "may" have saved lives.
This programme has now been discontinued in the U.K for various reasons.
"The earlier the diagnosis, the better the prognosis" slips easily of the tongue, but unfortunately it is not that simple.
If the lung cancer was a spread from another organ e.g kidney, then the outcome would have been the same whatever or whenever it was diagnosed.
However......if it was a lung cancer in it's own right and not spread from an other organ, then you pose an interesting question.
At one time in the UK there was a screening programme for lung cancer and this picked up many cases and "may" have saved lives.
This programme has now been discontinued in the U.K for various reasons.
"The earlier the diagnosis, the better the prognosis" slips easily of the tongue, but unfortunately it is not that simple.
"I'd guess that he'd been paying for his health checks"
From this report...
https:/
"Mr Brokenshire first became concerned before Christmas when he cleared his throat and noticed a small amount of blood in his tissue. It was his only symptom but it prompted him to visit his GP, who referred him for a series of tests."
Sounds like typical NHS procedure to me.
"Did Screening Save His Life?"
No, there was no such screening but he has been campaigning for such screening since.
http://
From this report...
https:/
"Mr Brokenshire first became concerned before Christmas when he cleared his throat and noticed a small amount of blood in his tissue. It was his only symptom but it prompted him to visit his GP, who referred him for a series of tests."
Sounds like typical NHS procedure to me.
"Did Screening Save His Life?"
No, there was no such screening but he has been campaigning for such screening since.
http://
it isn't clear that screening can save lives from lung cancer
the tests have risks
they can be expensive
from the CRUC site on screening for lung cancer
uses spiral CT - I cant get the dose
It is possible to cost how much moolah it takes to find every case.
Do a thousand and find perhaps two - then the cost of fiding each one is half the cost of processing a thousand spiral CTs ( which is a sugnificant sum )
if you cant show the patients live any longer then you have a good case not to do it. - which I thought was the case in ca lung
(but hey things change)
the tests have risks
they can be expensive
from the CRUC site on screening for lung cancer
uses spiral CT - I cant get the dose
It is possible to cost how much moolah it takes to find every case.
Do a thousand and find perhaps two - then the cost of fiding each one is half the cost of processing a thousand spiral CTs ( which is a sugnificant sum )
if you cant show the patients live any longer then you have a good case not to do it. - which I thought was the case in ca lung
(but hey things change)
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