Our cancer shame: Survival rates still lag behind EU despite spending billions
By
Jenny Hope
Britain has not done enough to boost cancer survival rates and will fail to hit a target to match the success of other European countries by 2010, experts claimed yesterday.
It is optimistic to expect the gap to be closed by the deadline because progress is too slow, according to medical journal The Lancet Oncology.
At least £2billion extra was spent at the start of the Government's Cancer Plan, rising to a total of £4.35billion in 2006/07 in England.
Despite the tripling of investment in cancer care in Britain over the past decade there has been no striking improvement in survival in a system 'riddled with bureaucracy', says cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora...........
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