A man with stage four lung cancer has backed called for a screening programme for the disease in NI.
A County Armagh man with stage four lung cancer has backed calls for a screening programme for the disease to be rolled out across Northern Ireland.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Northern Ireland with about 1,000 dying from the disease each year, according to the charity. Mr Greene, who said he smoked about 20 cigarettes a day until the age of 50, said: "If it's going to save lives in England, it's going to save lives here as well."He said if his cancer had been picked up earlier, he may have been able to have other treatments.
Mr Greene added that if he had thought it was cancer: "I'd have been getting screening and it would have been picked up".Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Northern Ireland with about 1,000 dying from the disease each year"It is devastating families, some of those who live in our poorest communities," she added.
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