Lung scan £650

You may wish to consider a lung scan if you are a man over 35, or a woman over 40, and if any of the following apply to you:

• Heavy smoker or live with a heavy smoker
• Have been exposed to asbestos in the past
• Short of breath or have a persistent cough
• Coughing up blood

Smoking kills over 120,000 people each year in the UK and of these about a third die of lung cancer. One of the main problems is that symptoms do not usually occur until the latter stages of the disease when the outcome is almost always poor. Early detection is therefore vital.