A new research indicates that people from socioeconomic groups benefit from low-dose CT screening for lung cancer survival. Professor Stephen Duffy from the Wolfson Institute of Population Health and colleagues from the University of Liverpool have publsihed the study demonstrating the same. This new study illustrated the importance of screening, especially for those who live in areas of economic deprivation. In this study, they assessed the impact of socioeconomic status on various aspects such as initial recruitment, lung cancer detection, mortality benefit from lung cancer, and other diseases. The study also shows that screening may also provide additional health benefits for other smoking related diseases as well. Conditions like COPD and emphysema, both affect lower socioeconomic groups and were less often the cause of death when received low-dose CT scan. They worked on the long-term outcomes of the participants.
The researchers showed that those from a lower socioeconomic groups benefited from low-dose CT screening for lung cancer survival to the same extant in comparison to those patients from more affluent groups. Professor Stephen Duffy, Lead of the Centre for Prevention, Detection and Diagnosis in the Wolfson Institute of Population Health: “These results indicate the potential for lung cancer screening to address some serious inequalities in health. As the targeted programme is rolled out nationally, we need to make an effort to deliver the service to those deprived populations who need it most.”
The UKLS study was funded by the Helath Technology Assessment programme of the National Institute for Health Research. Daniel Vulkan’s and Professor Stephen Duffy’s contributions to this research were funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme.
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