NHS cancer guide for GPs and patients could save 5,000 lives a year, says Nice

Guidance on symptoms and tests drawn up by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for doctors and patients could transform cancer care in UK

Doctors are being advised to extend cancer tests to half a million more people a year under new guidelines which could eventually prevent 5,000 deaths a year.

Thousand of lives will be saved every year if GPs and patients act on new NHS guidance, which details for the first time the symptoms that could indicate cancer.