We ’re beating cancer, but is the NHS in a fit state to offer these life-saving treatments? | Kristian Helin

Patients must be given better access to the latest drugs, technology and clinical trialsCancer has been hitting the front pages again, and it can be difficult from the headlines to judge whether it is good news or bad.We seem to lurch from agame-changing new treatment one day to reports of rising rates the next – most recently, alarming news about theincrease in global incidence of cancer among the under-50s.Continue reading...
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