The NHS has issued a warning to all current and former cigarette smokers.
Professor Peter Johnson, NHS clinical director for cancer, said: "Lung cancer can often be hard to detect at an early stage and so these checks, close to people’s homes, show how the NHS is taking action to find more people with cancer."
Catching cancer early is key to being able to treat it effectively and the health service is urging people to go and get a check for lung cancer in community testing sites, known as the Targeted Lung Health Check Programme.
