NHS lung cancer screening 'could save 5,000 lives a year'

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Experts call for introduction of CT scans for people at risk due to smoking or family history

Prof Charles Swanton, chief clinician at Cancer Research UK and one of the country’s leading cancer scientists, said: “The data are extraordinary. If we had a drug half as good as that, we would have adopted it by now.”

 

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What a HEALTH service would do, but we only have an ILLNESS service, and not enough of that.

Good luck with that, now that doctors will be leaving due to Brexit and the coming sell-out of the NHS !

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