As Lung Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, Roswell Park is expanding its life-saving lung cancer early detection program.
“Early Detection Driven to You” — “Eddy” for short — is Roswell Park’s lung cancer screening unit on wheels. The Comprehensive Cancer Center will now use Eddy to reduce the cancer burden for our first responders.
Roswell Park has offered lung cancer screening since 1998 for people who are at high risk of developing the disease. Inside Eddy, you’ll find a fully functional CT scanner, funded by New York State, to make it even easier for people to get screened.
“Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer and it kills more people than all the other major cancers combined, and it doesn’t have to be that way,” said Mary Reid, Ph.D., MSPH, Roswell Park’s Chief of Cancer Screening and Survivorship.