Dame Esther Rantzen, pictured, smoked for a decade and was diagnosed last year with late-stage lung cancer aged 82. She has criticised plans to stop screening for the disease in over 75s.
But despite being known as a disease of older people, the Government’s much-lauded new lung cancer screening programme will exclude Britons over the age of 74. ‘The risks overall are low and for most people outweighed by the huge benefits of diagnosing lung cancer earlier,’ he says.
