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A cancer survivor from Great Barr has urged people to use a screening programme which helped detect his illness early enough for treatment.

Ex-smoker Noel Cunningham urged others to use the Lung Cancer Screening Programme, which has seen more than 18,000 people in Sandwell in the last 18 months since it was launched.

Around 6,200 people were scanned after being found to be at a high risk of developing lung cancer, with scans diagnosing a total of 41 people with stage 1 or 2 lung cancer so far.

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The screening programme has also detected other forms of cancer in an additional 14 patients, including breast cancer and bowel cancer, and has performed around 700 surveillance scans o

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