Wales’ Health Secretary Jeremy Miles said the lung cancer screening programme would use mobile CT scanners and include support to help people quit smoking.
As of 2022, around 340,000 people in Wales – 14.1% of the overall population – smoked cigarettes, according to the ONS, external.
Miles said the screening programme’s implementation would take place in three stages to help the NHS scale up its capacity.
He said it would also include protocols for detecting conditions such as COPD, adding that the full screening programme would cost around £13m a year.
A similar lung cancer screening programme, targeting former and current smokers aged 55-74, is expected to be fully rolled out in England by 2029., external