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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

UK trails other countries on waiting times for cancer treatment, study finds

Someone examining radiotherapy readout
Experts have warned that delays in treating cancer patients are adversely affecting their survival chances. Photograph: Phanie/Sipa Press/Alamy

Cancer patients in the UK wait up to seven weeks longer to begin radiotherapy or chemotherapy than people in comparable countries, research has revealed.

The stark findings are yet more damning evidence of the extent to which the UK lags behind other nations, as experts warn that people’s chances of survival are being affected by long waits for treatment.

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