Progress in preventing, detecting and treating cancer means that survival rates have doubled in the UK in the past 50 years. But the impact on those caring for someone with the disease can still be significant.
Research by academics at Queen’s University Belfast has found that the psychological, physical, social and financial impacts of cancer on informal caregivers, from spouses or partners to adolescents, can be serious. With 1.1 million working adults providing daily support to a loved one with cancer, according to one recent report, more attention needs to be paid to caregivers, they say.
