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Delays introducing lung cancer screening in the UK could cost thousands of lives, warns a leading cancer expert.
Prof John Field of Liverpool University says planning should start now for nationwide screening of older smokers by the end of 2016.
US data suggests screening can detect lung cancer early, leading to 20% fewer deaths, he told Nature journal.
Currently, 75% of lung cancer patients are diagnosed too late to save them.
Prof Field, who is leading the UK Lung Cancer Screening trial (UKLS), said that in 2012 someone died of lung cancer in the European Union every two minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29142822
Prof John Field of Liverpool University says planning should start now for nationwide screening of older smokers by the end of 2016.
US data suggests screening can detect lung cancer early, leading to 20% fewer deaths, he told Nature journal.
Currently, 75% of lung cancer patients are diagnosed too late to save them.
Prof Field, who is leading the UK Lung Cancer Screening trial (UKLS), said that in 2012 someone died of lung cancer in the European Union every two minutes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29142822