Cancer: Smoking
(asked on 21st November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to encourage regular cancer check-ups for people who smoke.
This question was answered on 27th November 2023
On 26 June 2023, we announced the roll out of a National Targeted Lung Cancer Screening Programme in England accepting the recommendation of the UK National Screening Committee. The programme invites those between 55 and 74 years old, with a history of smoking who are deemed at high risk for lung cancer for a low dose computerised tomography scan.
When fully rolled out in 2030, this programme will detect around 9,000 cancers earlier each year.