LUCAS to offer lung cancer screening in Clay, Summersville, Weston, and Buckhannon

LUCAS to offer lung cancer screening in Clay, Summersville, Weston, and Buckhannon

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — LUCAS, a first of its kind, state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will visit Clay, Nicholas, Lewis, and Upshur counties offering low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scans.

Long overdue lung cancer screening program coming to PEI, health minister says

Prince Edward Island will soon no longer be the only Canadian province without a lung cancer screening program. Mark McLane, the local health minister, revealed last week that he has a two-year plan to phase one into the provincial healthcare system. “We have a respirologist joining our system in late summer,” he said Friday, “so that skill set is very important to standing up that program.” The province recently bought a computerized tomography…