Manchester’s Lung Health Checks: community-based screening boosts early lung cancer detection and leads to national screening pilots

Impact: Health and wellbeing, Economic, Attitudes and behaviours, Awareness and understanding

Narrative

Manchester’s Lung Health Checks (LHC) used a community-based approach to address the unmet need for lung cancer early detection. We took lung cancer screening directly into socio-economically disadvantaged communities using mobile computerised tomography (CT) scanners in supermarket car parks. In a pilot study (2,541 attendees), 75% were from the most deprived quintile. 80% of lung cancers detected were early stage compared to fewer than 20% using conventional referral routes. Our research has led to incorporation of community LHCs into the NHS Long Term Plan with investment of GBP70,000,000 and a national LHC roll out at 10 country-wide locations, representing a screening population of approximately 60,000 more people.
Impact date1 Jun 2016 → 31 Dec 2020
Category of impactHealth and wellbeing, Economic, Attitudes and behaviours, Awareness and understanding
Impact levelAdoption

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Cancer
  • Lydia Becker Institute
  • Manchester Cancer Research Centre

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