Mobile trucks offering lung cancer check-ups are rolling in to car parks around the country and the NHS is urging people to take up the invite if they receive one. Some 600 people have already been diagnosed with the disease after coming forward for the check in a mobile truck.
Dame Cally Palmer, NHS cancer director, said: “These lung checks can save lives – by going out into communities we find more people who may not have otherwise realised they have lung cancer – with hundreds already diagnosed and hundreds of thousands due to be invited.”
The health service said so far, 23 existing truck sites have issued up to 25,000 invitations every month. A further 20 NHS lung truck sites are due to go live shortly with the capacity to invite 750,000 more people at increased risk for a check, in efforts to catch thousands more cancers at an earlier stage.
