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ECU Health offers screening opportunities close to home.

We have to improve the odds.

About 9,000 North Carolinians will be diagnosed with lung and bronchus cancer this year. It’s our second most common cancer and also our deadliest, representing over 5,000 deaths across the state, annually. Lung cancer symptoms oftentimes don’t appear until it’s too late. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Thankfully, early detection saves lives.

That’s why ECU Health launched an initiative to fight this disease. We offer a screening that can detect lung cancer early – before you have symptoms. And by catching it early, survival rates can increase up to 90 percent. The screening:

Is pain-free
Takes about 10 minutes
Requires no injections or pills
Uses very low levels of radiation
Is covered by most insurance plans, including Medicare, for those who qualify

We offer this lung cancer screening technology at each of our hospitals across eastern North Carolina.

ECU Health Beaufort Hospital, 628 E. 12th Street, Washington
ECU Health Bertie Hospital, 1403 S. King Street, Windsor
ECU Health Chowan Hospital, 211 Virginia Road, Edenton
ECU Health Duplin Hospital, 401 N. Main Street, Kenansville
ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital, 111 Hospital Drive, Tarboro
ECU Health Medical Center, 2100 Stantonsburg Road, Greenville
ECU Health North Hospital, 250 Smith Church Rd, Roanoke Rapids
ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, 500 S. Academy Street, Ahoskie
East Carolina Heart Institute, 115 Heart Drive, Greenville
The Outer Banks Hospital, 4800 S. Croatan Highway, Nags Head

Take the next step.

Share this form with your health care provider, who can help determine if you qualify for the scan and complete the screening order. You may be eligible if you:

Are between the ages of 50 and 77 (some insurance companies may pay up to age 80)
Have a smoking history of 20- pack years or greater (see chart)
Are a current smoker or quit fewer than 15 years ago
Have no sign or symptom of lung cancer