Charities launch campaign to prompt family doctors not to neglect UK’s eighth deadliest cancer

Cancer charities are urging GPs to save lives by getting better at spotting symptoms one of Britain’s most lethal forms of the disease – lung cancer in non-smokers.

Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK are among the groups to back a new campaign that launches this week intended to prompt family doctors to consider lung cancer as a likely diagnosis even in people who have never smoked.

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