The UK is facing a cancer care “disaster” as NHS staff cuts mean patients can’t get the potentially life-saving treatment they need fast enough, senior doctors have warned.
More people than ever are surviving cancer, and death rates have decreased by 22 per cent in the past 50 years, but diagnoses ballooned to more than 354,820 in 2023, compared to 327,174 before the pandemic, as early diagnosis improves and treatment options have increased.
