Long term investment could avert 20 000 cancer deaths a year by 2040, says charity

The UK urgently requires sustained and ambitious investment in cancer care to reduce mortality and improve survival rates, the charity Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has said.Despite UK cancer survival rates doubling over the past 50 years, the country continues to perform poorly compared with international peers. With NHS cancer services in “crisis” and half a million cancer cases a year projected by 2040, the charity warned that hard won progress was at risk of stalling.In a manifesto1 and policy paper2 published on 28 November, CRUK outlined recommendations for speeding up progress in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer that it wants all parties to commit to before the next general election. If adopted, the plan would help avoid 20 000 cancer deaths a year by 2040, a reduction of 15% in cancer mortality, it said.CRUK’s chief executive Michelle Mitchell told a press briefing, “Cancer remains the defining health matter of our…
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