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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Allow more people in UK with lung cancer symptoms to self-refer for tests, say experts

Nurse reviewing X-ray of lungs.
Other recommendations in the paper include widening messaging around lung cancer symptoms to reach people who have never smoked. Photograph: Martin Barraud/Getty Images

More people with lung cancer symptoms in the UK should be able to self-refer for tests rather than wait for their GP to request them, experts have suggested.

Making it easier for those with symptoms to get chest X-rays could help speed up diagnosis and improve survival rates from the disease, they said.

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