Yearly tumour tests advised

ONE in 39 people would have a tumour detected if given a full cancer MOT, a study suggests.

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center fully tested thousands of people aged 20 to 80.

Prof Nadir Arber, who led the study, said: “The NHS should absolutely be offering these annual tests to everybody from the age of 25. It is cost-saving.”

The cancer MOTs on 14,307 subjects in Israel identified 647 lesions, of which around half were malignant.