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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Rachel Vickers-Price

Cancer caught quickly for 5,000 Britons thanks to NHS mobile screening trucks

More than 5,000 people in England have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier thanks to an innovative NHS initiative (Alamy/PA) -

Britons who are at risk of developing lung cancer will now have more chances to get checked out earlier thanks to NHS mobile scanning trucks, dispatched to communities across England with the highest rates of lung disease.

Since its launch in 2019, the NHS Targeted Lung Health Check Programme has already saved more than 5,000 lives by catching lung cancer early.

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