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Cancer Survival in the UK Still Below the European Average

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Cancer survival in the UK is still below the European average, despite recent improvements, a report suggests today. Survival rates in lung, breast, prostate and colorectal cancer were lower in the UK compared with everywhere except Eastern Europe.

The Eurocare studies of 23 countries are the largest international projects to compare the survival or patients from 11 different cancers and looked at the outcome of 2.7m new cases between 1995 and 1999. The studies were published in the Lancet Oncology journal and they reveal wide differences in death rates from both rare and common types of cancer. The best performers are Nordic countries such as Sweden and Norway, and central European countries. Ranked just beneath them are south European countries, and lower still is the UK, followed by Eastern European countries. Some eastern European countries almost matched the UK's performance, despite spending less than a third of the UK,s health budget per head of population.

While death rates have fallen in the Uk, they have also fallen in the rest of Europe. Government cancer "tsar" Mike Richards said poor results in the UK had been due to delays spotting the disease.

Professor Richard Sullivan, Cancer Research UK's director of clinical programmes, said the figures showed the NHS Cancer Plan was beginning to make a difference. But he added: "Cancer is still not being diagnosed early enough in all cases. And we need to ensure that patients have access to the best surgery, radiotherapy and other treatments."

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