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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

NHS lung cancer trucks boost early diagnoses in deprived areas of England

A man has a CT scan inside an NHS ‘lung truck’
A man has a CT scan inside an NHS ‘lung truck’. Photograph: NHS England/PA

Growing numbers of poorer people are being diagnosed early with lung cancer after the NHS began on-the-spot chest screening in the back of trucks at supermarkets and health centres.

Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and also the country’s biggest cancer killer, claiming 34,800 lives a year or 95 a day.

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