Thousands of lives could be saved with improved cancer care, charities say
Thousands of lives could be saved each year with improvements to care for people with less survivable cancers, a group of charities has said.
The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce warned that people diagnosed with less survivable cancers in the UK have “worse prospects” than those living in similar countries.
If the UK had similar survival rates for less survivable cancers – including lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach cancers – some 8,000 lives could be saved each year, the Taskforce has estimated.
People living in the UK have even worse prospects than those living in comparable countries.
Anna Jewell, Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce
It said that these cancers have an average five-year survival rate of just 16% and that the UK “lags
