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Sep 2019
Study finds UK cancer survival improving but still lagging behind
New analysis shows that survival rates in the UK are on the up, but are still behind other high-income countries.
Survival rates over five years for colon and rectal cancer have improved the most since 1994 and pancreatic cancer the least.
Progress is said to be due to advances in surgery and treatment. However, the UK still performed worse than Denmark, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Norway and New Zealand, the report in Lancet Oncology found.
Charity Cancer Research UK have said better could be done in the UK and asked for more “investment in the NHS and the systems and innovations that support it.”
The research involved in the study looked at data for nearly four million patients with seven types of cancer – stomach, colon, rectum, pancreas, oesophagus, ovary and lung, from seven high income countries.
The estimated rates of survival for patients diagnosed with cancer increased in all countries over the period studied, from 1995 – 2014.
Australis was found to have the highest survival rates, while the UK on the whole had lower survival rates.
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