Royal Papworth Hospital consultants stress importance of lung cancer screening on No 10 Downing Street visit

Three consultants from Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust joined clinical leaders, patients and politicians at 10 Downing Street to celebrate 35 years of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.

Aman Coonar, Dr David Gilligan and Prof Robert Rintoul, who all hold national roles in addition to working at Royal Papworth in Cambridge, emphasised the importance of the NHS lung cancer screening programme, which has identified 7,500 early lung cancers to date.

Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and the most common cause of cancer death. It claims the lives of about 35,000 people each year, or 95 per day, and accounts for 21 per cent of all cancer deaths.