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BTOG 2026 | Expanding lung cancer screening & education to reduce healthcare disparities
Matthew Evison, MD, MRCP, Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK, discusses the key takeaways from a meeting with patient advocates regarding the British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG) Essentials Screening Day, highlighting the need to expand screening efforts and address disparities across different regions. Education is essential in both the public and healthcare settings, where lung cancer can affect anyone, regardless of smoking history, and symptomatic presentation should not be overlooked in the era of screening. This interview took place at the 2026 BTOG congress in Edinburgh, UK.
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Yeah, we had a great meeting with the patient advocates. And it was about the, it was an update about the BTOG Essentials Screening Day, Education Day we ran. The theme of the whole discussion was how can you go further and faster with screening? So there’s a real recognition of what screening is achieved and how amazing it has been. There’s a real recognition of the disparity across the four home nations of where at the different stages of screening and really just highlighting that disparity and everybody’s wishes that screening is there for anybody that’s eligible, but also about how we can push the boundaries and understand what additional populations can be screened in the future...
Yeah, we had a great meeting with the patient advocates. And it was about the, it was an update about the BTOG Essentials Screening Day, Education Day we ran. The theme of the whole discussion was how can you go further and faster with screening? So there’s a real recognition of what screening is achieved and how amazing it has been. There’s a real recognition of the disparity across the four home nations of where at the different stages of screening and really just highlighting that disparity and everybody’s wishes that screening is there for anybody that’s eligible, but also about how we can push the boundaries and understand what additional populations can be screened in the future. And also really just, there’s some really strong reminders in that meeting that screening will detect some lung cancers, but far from all of them. And some really important messages about the need for education in the public, the need for education in the healthcare system, that anybody can get lung cancer. It’s not related to smoking. It doesn’t have to be related to smoking. And so if you’ve got lungs, you can get lung cancer. And that’s a really important message in this era of screening when there’s such a big focus on screening. We can’t forget the symptomatic presentation.
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