Lung cancer screening

And you know, I think in, in no other cancer is that more evident than in lung cancer.

So I think, you know, we didn't talk about lung cancer screening.

So you know, lung cancer screening is another really important test.

Um, it's, you know, it uses a low dose CT scanner.

So individuals who have smoked

That's right.

And the survival rate, survival rate was only 30%.

You know, we and other hospitals have instituted these lung cancer screenings.

Lung cancer used to be a death sentence.

So tell me what you think about lung cancer screening in 2026 and what you do.

Yeah.

So specifically here in Iowa, it, it basically lung cancer screening means you can find a nodule, you can find an early lung cancer when it's at the absolute earliest stages, and before it has any chance to really do anything.

You can find it when it's a curative stage, and that's what that tool allows us to do.

Currently, the, the people who are eligible for it, it's about, I think it's somewhere around 9% of people that are eligible are actually getting it.

You just get the screening.

If there's something there, it's super easy to find out what it is, and it's not very risky.

And I contacted the Minister for Health when she took up her appointment two years ago and said, sent a lengthy email and I got a response.

She came to Cork to meet me to discuss lung cancer screening and I told her the statistics and lung cancer has the highest mortality rate amongst all cancers, not just in Ireland, but worldwide.

She made a promise that she'd look at it, but we know promises aren't guarantees when it comes to politicians.

Did Jennifer Carol McNeill know that you could get lung cancer without being a smoker?

Yeah, yeah.

And we know that there's a bowel screen system, there's a cervical screening system, there's any other kind of thing.

Is there, that you know about from your own research, is there a lung cancer screening system being used elsewhere, shall we say, in the world that could be brought to Ireland? Yes.

Yeah, I actually had a company contact me because they were following my social media pages and they contacted me from England.