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health teams have been sending mobile screening units to check for liver cancer at diabetes and sexual health clinics as well as food banks.

The trucks are staffed by nurses and can offer on-the-spot scans to identify those most at risk of hepatocellular carcinoma – the most common form of the disease, making up 85 per cent of all liver cancers.

Checks will be offered to high-risk adults including those who drink a lot of alcohol, who have a current diagnosis or history of viral hepatitis, or who have non-alcoholic liver disease.