by
Gus Iversen, Editor in Chief | March 27, 2023
Eddy stands for “Early Detection Driven to You” for a reason; we need to reach these individuals in their own backyards. Eddy is a fantastic model of a public-private partnership, as New York State recognized this need and helped us with critical startup funds, and Philips Healthcare provided us with the specialized imaging equipment capable of providing mobile low-dose spiral CT screening.
HCB News: Did Roswell Park have other mobile screening initiatives prior to EDDY? If so, did you learn anything from those initiatives that shaped the EDDY project?
CJ: We’ve had mobile community outreach efforts before, and we’ve done a lot of work to conveniently navigate the public to convenient cancer screening at a provider of their choice, but this is our first truly mobile cancer screening, and we hope to build the program from here.
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HCB News: You’ve started by serving local fire fighters, who are at increased risk of lung cancer due to their work. What other groups do you plan to target in the future?
CJ: We’ve had a longstanding relationship with firefighters and other first responders because of that increased need. We know that firefighters with 20 or more years of service face 60% increased risk for lung cancer, a sixfold increase in breast cancer, and increased risk of many other cancers including leukemias, lymphomas, multiple myeloma, colon cancer and kidney cancer — all because of on-the-job exposures.
With the Eddy initiative, it’s been an honor for us to work with the Buffalo Fire Department and Buffalo Professional Firefighters Local 282 to bring Eddy to our local firehouses. It’s been a great partnership so far and we are expanding out from here.
EDDY is equipped with a Philips Incisive CT scanner
Roswell Park’s continued strategic outreach will bring Eddy to communities across Western and Central New York — including neighborhoods on Buffalo’s East Side and West Side and around Niagara Falls that are home to many Black, Latinx, immigrant or refugee families as well as medically underserved rural communities and the sovereign Indian nations of the Haudenosaunee Alliance as our team is communicating with Federally Qualified Health Centers. We’d like to keep rolling Eddy out far and wide, reaching even more high-need urban and rural communities across the state.
