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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent

More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’

Metastatic melanoma of the lungs.
Metastatic melanoma of the lungs.
Photograph: Cultura Creative/Alamy

More than 60,000 cancer patients a year in England are not getting the radiotherapy they need at all, while some face waits of up to six months to begin the treatment, research has found.

The situation is so dire that nearly 100 heads of radiotherapy and oncology – three-quarters of England’s radiotherapy leaders – have warned in an open letter that the government is failing patients.

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