Mobile lung cancer screening making it easier to access health care on Country

Clive Sampson from Jigalong Community, Western Australia talks about his experience undertaking a lung cancer screening and the benefits of having a mobile screening service come visit his area.

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My name is Clive Sampson, from Jigalong community.

Do you think it’s good to have the truck in your local community
Yeah, you might want to try it you know, do the scan on the thing and check out everything in the body, it’s a good thing, you know. And it's good, you know, better than your travelling - well, maybe 3-4 hours down to Hedland or fly down to Perth and, but it's good. We have it in Newman here, which is good. Yeah. And make it easier. Yeah.

Is it better to have these services on Country
Better if on country, you know, from Jigalong to Newman. It's good. You know, that was again, you know, as long as the trucks and everything, you know, coming in the thing, they can travel from the long straight into the thing. You know, it's good.

How did you feel going onto the truck for your scan
I feel everything good to see. Yeah. Truck. Yeah. And it looked good inside it as well. Yeah. And like a house inside. 

Everybody was nice inside. They think, yeah. And it's good. And just sitting in the thing, like a lounge chair inside. Just there was a bit of a yarn and thing in there, all right. And it's cool inside as well.

It feels good to me.

You know, when you get scanned in the thing and check everything out and it’s good you know, when you have a look at it, everything is perfect. And the thing, yeah, happy days.

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He explains that having a Heart of Australia truck in the community makes life easier than travelling long distances for a scan.