Cancer scan at the supermarket: NHS rolls out screening trucks in Tesco and Asda car parks in bid to improve detection rates of the disease

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Patients are being offered cancer scans in supermarket car parks to try to improve disease detection rates.

The scheme is going nationwide after a trial led to a four-fold rise in the number of lung cancers diagnosed early.

NHS chiefs judged it so successful they will pay for more trucks with scanners to be sited at branches of Tesco and Asda.

80f882d32262e7e83a8cd6463732dd0a Cancer scan at the supermarket: NHS rolls out screening trucks in Tesco and Asda car parks in bid to improve detection rates of the disease

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