InsideVue Smokescreen £80

Each year, 1.2 million new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed worldwide.

Smoking accounts for about one third of all cancer deaths in the UK or put it another way, around 43,000 deaths a year. Tobacco also contributes towards the deaths of 34,000 patients from respiratory disease and a further 40,000 also die from tobacco related heart and circulatory disease. Each year, over 38,000 new patients are diagnosed in Britain with smoking related cancers. Tobacco can lead or contribute to the following types of cancers: mouth, throat, bladder, breast,cervix, colorectal, kidney, leukaemia, liver, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach. Around 27% of adults (aged 16 or over) smoke in England with the highest prevalance occurring in the 20-24 year old age group. It is estimated that 66% of smokers in England want to give-up smoking. The InsideVue Smokescreen examination checks for plaque formation within the neck's carotid artery caused by smoking and can prove useful in helping to motivate patients to quit smoking. smoking.