00:02Amid the beauty of Kakadu National Park, a tricked out truck looking for a deadly disease.
00:10Every child knows of someone who has smoked and there's at least one smoker in every household.
00:18Smoking rates in West Arnhem are among the highest in the country
00:22and with the nearest lung screening technology more than 200 kilometres away, many go without.
00:28By the time you do the drive, you get into Darwin and then you're waiting for like two to three
00:33hours
00:34and then it's already afternoon and you've got a long drive back, it can be pretty draining.
00:39Now for the first time, community members have care coming to them.
00:44From the outside it looks like a road train with a paint job,
00:48but inside boasts a decked out clinic with advanced x-ray technology.
00:53I doubt if anyone would probably travel to Darwin to get this done.
00:57Certainly I wouldn't. A lot of blokes don't get into Darwin.
01:01A lot of blokes won't go see a doctor. Here's an opportunity.
01:04The Northern Territory has the highest rates of lung cancer across the nation,
01:08as well as the highest morbidity rates.
01:11In the NT, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, particularly among Aboriginal men.
01:17It's machines like this that help catch that cancer early.
01:22In Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, we had one participant who came on board the truck.
01:28He was 52 years old and asymptomatic, came through for a screening and was diagnosed with a stage 2 lung
01:35cancer.
01:36That participant had surgery two weeks later.
01:39The program will be expanded to all other states and territories by 2027.
01:45Saving lives with a simple scan.
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