Lung cancer screening... in car parks

SCREENING tests for early lung cancer detection could soon be carried out in shopping centres and car parks. A pilot scheme in Yorkshire will see testing units set up to screen people identified by GPs as being at risk. The tests, on 7,000 people, will be done by CT scan.

‘We’re trying to find people who would otherwise come to clinics in three years with advanced cancer, and instead find their cancer at an early stage,’ says Dr Matt Callister of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lung cancer kills 35,000 Britons a year.