A/Prof Gavin M Wright

The late detection rate changes from 70-80% with business a usual to about 20% with screening. That’s a pretty big advance. More than any new drug can provide.

That’s very sad. Unfortunately about 20% of people in a screening program are found when they already have stage 4, and the fact they get that way in <2 years also means they are ultra-fast growing. People not eligible for screening can also get lung cancer so it is a major step but not the panacea.

Absolutely. As Australia has universal cover AND this is free to all qualifying residents AND it’s an actual program that is promoted at federal and state level AND has support and leadership from Indigenous organisations, we should see an upswing in early cancer presentation in most groups.

I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH.

These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.

How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?

Australia Launches Lung Cancer Screening Program for Smokers Australia has launched its first lung cancer screening program, which targets current and recent smokers with biennial low-dose CT scans.

Australia's National Screening program has commenced this month so it is starting to appear in the news. We've screened our first few people at St Vincent's Melbourne and are looking forward to ramping. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in major lower limb amputation related to peripheral arterial disease in England Amputation is a treatment of last resort for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). This study examined associations between socioeconomic deprivation and ethn

Socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in major lower limb amputation related to peripheral arterial disease in England
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Question: Why would 🇺🇸 companies have to “eat them” if the other countries already pay them?

Answer: They don’t. Tariffs are a tax on us.
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After-tax income under the Trump/GOP budget:

-People making less than $17/k year: LOSE $1000
-People making between $17k and $51k/yr: LOSE $700
-People making over $4.3M/year: GAIN $389,000

This is what class warfare looks like.

Romania’s pro-EU candidate beats hard-right rival to win presidential election | CNN Romania’s pro-European Union presidential candidate Nicușor Dan won the country’s presidential election Sunday, defeating his ultranationalist rival.

Some good news! www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/e...

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

From the party that brought us such timeless hits as “significant privacy concerns” and “fighting government overreach”

Its good to see right prevail today, but, my god, she was kidnapped and imprisoned for an opinion piece!

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

Harvard’s putting up a fight from the academic sector. Where are our business leaders?? The silence is deafening. The latest No Mercy / No Malice: www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...

I think people need to have more children. Here’s why I vote for the party that deports sick toddlers, gives everybody measles, cuts funding for children’s education and healthcare, and is investigating Miss Rachel.

Isn’t that the first thing you learn in Yale Law?

Not to say this isn’t an issue and shouldn’t be studied for each cancer but I think this is not the smoking gun. We mainly do scans after curative surgery to screen for the next (hopefully) curable cancer. It’s rare to re-treat for cure unless it’s isolated recurrence suitable for surgery or radioTx

4 cancers, 10 different followup regimens, lots of “contamination” in controls and a broad conclusion. As for lung cancer, a single 2010 paper=pts never exposed to adjuvant, targeted, immunotherapies, stereotactic radiotherapy or minimally invasive surgery in a disease that was 90% fatal then

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“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

Opinion | That four-year-old cancer victim is no angel.

Are we still pretending this is about free speech?

Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?