cancer

Macmillan Cancer Support has welcomed the Conservatives' manifesto pledges for cancer patients, including changes to improve survival rates.

In the first of a series of articles analysing at the parties' manifestos in relation to the NHS, health and social care, Richard Walsh looks at what Labour are pledging.

Macmillan Cancer Support has welcomed the pledges in Labour's Manifesto on cancer treatment.

People over the age of 65 are about seven times more likely to develop malignant melanoma than 40 years ago, according to figures from Cancer Research UK.

The Advertisement Standards Agency (ASA) has banned a Bupa TV advert on the grounds that it implied there was a higher chance of survival for cancer patients who received private healthcare.

Friends Life is to extend its group cancer cover policy to companies with 50 employees or more.

Cancer survival rates in the UK are at or behind levels other European countries had achieved by the late 1990s, analysis by Macmillan Cancer Support has found.

An online programme used to predict suitable treatments for breast cancer has underestimated the death rate of women under 40 from the disease by 25%, a study has found.

The NHS' provision of services to patients is beginning to struggle to meet targets beyond A&E, a briefing from the Nuffield Trust has warned.

Improvements to the NHS' cancer services have lost momentum in the last two years, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned.