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From the outside, the Targeted Lunch Health Check (TLHC) mobile unit looks like nondescript van parked outside your local supermarket. Inside, it is a sleek series of rooms, a pathway cleverly designed to lead you through a lung health check process that normally takes several hospital visits.  “I received one of those general letters to get my lungs checked,” said Andrew Potts, aged 60. “I’m a smoker. I wasn’t going to go but because it was right next to Asda, I thought I could get something for tea. It looks like a normal lorry but inside there are [...]

Hundreds of volunteers from Tameside will be invited to return to a mobile clinic over the coming weeks for their second appointment as part of the NHS-Galleri trial. Participants will be asked to give another blood sample to help investigate whether a multi-cancer blood screening test can help to detect cancer early before symptoms appear. Since the NHS-Galleri trial first arrived in Tameside in June 2022 the trial has successfully enrolled over 140,000 volunteers from many different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds across England, including 20,000 from Greater Manchester. Those taking part were all aged [...]

A BURY man with a learning disability is supporting a campaign to urge others with similar conditions to use their Bowel Cancer Home Testing Kit. Each month, the NHS posts out more than half a million free Faecal Immunochemical Test kits (FIT) to people to use in the privacy of their homes. The test can detect early signs of bowel cancer. Stephen Owen, 64, from Whitefield, Bury, completed his screening with the help of the Learning Disability Flagging Project which helps people with learning disabilities take part in the national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Now [...]

PUBLISHED 30 MARCH 2023:A new NHS mobile ‘clinic in a van’ is set to tour Greater Manchester to talk to men about their risk of prostate cancer. The ThisVanCan roadshow is for black men aged over 45 who are more at risk of developing prostate cancer than other men. 1 in 4 black men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. The van is also open to all other men and people with a prostate aged over 45 who have a family history of prostate, breast or ovarian cancer. This means your father or brother has [...]

People in Greater Manchester, who have been sent a lifesaving home testing kit that can detect early signs of bowel cancer, are being encouraged to use it and return it, as part of a new, first of a kind NHS campaign. The NHS national campaign – which sees adverts across TV, radio and social media, aims to increase uptake of the home testing kit to ensure more people are diagnosed with bowel cancer at the earliest stage, when they’re nine times more likely to survive. The campaign highlights how quick and convenient it is [...]

March is prostate cancer awareness month. 1 in 4 black men, and 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime. The risk is higher in men over 50 and those with a family history of prostate cancer.  Prostate Cancer UK has produced an online risk checker, to improve awareness of risk factors and promote early diagnosis. Mr Motivator encourages men to use the Prostate Cancer UK risk checker The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance has put together a social media campaign to promote risk awareness and direct people to the online risk checker. [...]

Millions of people in England, who have been sent a lifesaving home testing kit that can detect early signs of bowel cancer, are being encouraged to use it and return it, as part of a new, first of a kind NHS campaign. New NHS Campaign urges people to use their bowel cancer home testing kit Launching today across TV, radio, video on demand and social media, the NHS national campaign aims to increase uptake of the home testing kit to ensure more people are diagnosed with bowel cancer at the earliest stage, when they’re nine [...]

Cancer survivor Hayley from Stockport is speaking out about having cervical cancer to raise awareness during Cervical Cancer Prevention Week which runs from 23 to 29 January. Hayley Lewis, a support worker, from Stockport, booked her routine cervical screening test (often known as a ‘smear test’) in January last year after receiving her invite from the NHS. Hayley Lewis from Stockport The busy mum-of-one had initially put the letter to one side. But when a reminder letter came, she booked the appointment. It turned out to be a very important decision. Hayley said: “I had no [...]

Hundreds of volunteers from across Hulme are being invited to return to mobile clinics over the coming days for their second appointment as part of the NHS-Galleri trial. Participants will be asked to give another blood sample to help investigate whether a multi-cancer blood screening test can help to detect cancer early before symptoms appear. If successful, the NHS plans to roll out the test to a further one million people across 2024 and 2025. Since the NHS-Galleri trial first arrived in Hulme, Manchester in December 2021 the trial has successfully enrolled over 140,000 volunteers [...]