Poorer women in UK have sixth-highest cancer death rates in Europe, WHO finds

Researcher using microscope in laboratory for cancer research. Photograph: Viacheslav Lopatin/Shutterstock

Poorer women in Britain have some of the highest death rates from cancer in Europe, an in-depth new World Health Organization study has found.

They are much more likely to die from the disease compared with better-off women in the UK and women in poverty in many other European countries.