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

Mobile on-the-spot screening initiative begun in 2018 hailed as having ‘turned a huge corner’

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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