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In addition to this ULS, the Santo António unit in Porto is also part of the group of pilot projects for lung cancer screening. Cascais is another unit where the project is planned to start.
A major Lisbon hospital says it is ready to start lung cancer screening, with thousands of patients already identified, as soon as funding is approved. Santa Maria Hospital has 3,500 The post Lisbon hospital ready to launch lung cancer screening pilot appeared first on Portugal Resident.
There are already 3,500 patients identified and capacity to carry out 30 screening tests per week.
The Santa Maria Local Health Unit (ULS) in Lisbon is ready to begin one of the lung cancer screening pilot projects announced by the Government; it already has 3,500 identified patients and the capacity to carry out 30 examinations per week.
