Orlando Health launches lung cancer screening program

Orlando Business Journal
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 3:10pm EDT

Orlando Health launched a lung cancer screening pilot program June 1 targeted at smokers and ex-smokers.

The pilot program at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando’s Rod Taylor Thoracic Care Center will focus on current and former smokers age 55 to 74, and will use low-dose radiation and CT scans to look for nodules

that don’t typically show up on X-rays. The hospital expects 20 percent of the people screened to need further testing and 2 percent to need treatment for lung cancer.

More than 18,000 people in Florida are expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2011.

The cost of the test will be discounted from $1,500 to $375.

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