A successful pop-up shop about cancer is returning to the Southside Shopping Centre.

Get to Know Cancer will return to Wandsworth in January, teaching people how they reduce their risk of getting cancer.

The shop helped hundreds of people in January this year and will feature specialist nurses giving free health check-ups, blood pressure tests, BMI monitoring and inspections of worrying lumps and moles.

In April this year the Wandsworth Guardian revealed that more people were dying of cancer in Wandsworth than the national average.

Overall the borough has a high cancer mortality rate, just above the UK average, but in certain types of cancer the statistics were more stark.

The Care Oncology Clinic highlighted the borough’s high mortality rate for prostate cancer, with 26 out of every 100,000 dying from the disease, compared with the national average of 24.

Using figures from Cancer Research UK, they described Wandsworth’s bowel cancer mortality rate as “well above” the UK average with 18.5 people dying out of every 100,000, compared with a national average of 16.4.

The rate for premature cancer deaths is also very high and breast cancer deaths in Wandsworth were also above the UK average.

Director of public health Houda Al-Sharifi said: “I’d urge people to spare five minutes during their shopping trip to visit the shop.”