Podcasts Cancer 20 October 2025
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MJA Podcasts 2025 Episode 20: Australia's new Lung cancer screening program

Professor Vivienne Milch

Australia has its first new cancer screening programme in 20 years, this time for lung cancer.

Today we’ll be discussing this new programme in depth as well as the role of primary care and the supports available in delivering the programme.

This podcast is Sponsored by the Australian Government National Lung Cancer Screening Program.

Professor Vivienne Milch is Medical Director, at Cancer Australia. Professor Milch is also Medical Advisor to the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health, Disability and Ageing on cancer screening policy.

Professor Milch holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy and is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, Sydney Campus at The University of Notre Dame, Australia and Professorial Fellow at the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University in Adelaide.

Prior to joining Cancer Australia, Professor Milch was a General Practitioner and clinical researcher at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney.

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