‘CT in a truck’ fleet won’t be ready when national lung cancer screening starts
When ready, the mobile CT clinics will perform up to 40 scans a day.
GPs will start screening patients for lung cancer in July but outback towns will not see the promised mobile CT scanners until at least November, officials say.
The National Lung Cancer Screening Program will involve GPs referring patients aged 50-70 with a 30-pack-year smoking history for chest CT at radiology clinics — with an estimated 900,000 patients eligible.
