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Abbie Meehan

Prostate cancer 'lottery' as a third of Scots men diagnosed 'too late'

Scottish men are more likely to be diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer than anywhere else in the UK, a new report has stated.

A charity has warned that patients across the UK face a "postcode lottery" of care, reports The Guardian. Prostate Cancer UK have reported that men in Scotland almost three times more likely to be diagnosed at a late stage compared with men in London.

The charity said that the proportion diagnosed when the disease may be too advanced to treat varied hugely depending on where patients lived.

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