{"id":271315,"date":"2025-11-09T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271315\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:56:09","slug":"lung-cancer-screening-programme-detects-180-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271315\/","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer screening programme detects 180 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 180 cases of lung cancer have been detected thanks to an NHS screening programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust launched the Lung Health Check scheme in October 2022 and since then more than 35,000 people have used the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trust said about 70% of the cancers found were at an early stage, making them more treatable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Helen Bone, a manager at the screening programme, said the check-ups had led to some &#8220;fantastic outcomes&#8221; and patients requiring treatment were grateful their cancer had been caught early.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Amazing response&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The programme is designed to be accessible, with a strong community focus, and it&#8217;s been amazing to see how many people have responded,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;If you receive an invitation for a Lung Health Check please don&#8217;t ignore it &#8211; it could save your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The screening process involves an initial telephone call followed by a lung scan which takes place in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Check-ups are available to people registered with a Sunderland or South Tyneside GP, aged between 55 and 74, and who are current or ex-smokers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow BBC North East on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCNEandCumbria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnortheast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/3yyMYUI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nextdoor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nextdoor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcneandcumbria\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More storiesRelated internet links<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 180 cases of lung cancer have been detected thanks to an NHS screening programme. South Tyneside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,37162,84,11557,124434,124435,39045],"class_list":["post-271315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cancers","tag-health","tag-lung-cancer","tag-lung-health-check","tag-nhs-foundation-trust","tag-south-tyneside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}