Around 6,200 people were found to be at a high risk of developing lung cancer, with scans diagnosing a total of 41 people with stage 1 or 2 lung cancer so far.
Sixty-nine-year-old Noel Cunningham from Great Barr quit smoking in 2017 following a heart attack. After contracting COVID and still feeling unwell, he visited his GP and was asked to attend a lung cancer screening appointment, which detected stage 3A cancer in his right lung and his thoracic lymph nodes.
He said: “If I hadn’t been sent for this screening, I would have been none the wiser. It’s been a bit of journey, but I’ve had a lot of fantastic people take care of me, and I’m so grateful to the lung cancer screening team".
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