cancer

An estimated 2.6 million people aged 50 plus are living with a serious illness in England with 3.1m over-50s living in serious ill health across the UK as a whole, research has found.

Bupa and Friends Life have highlighted measures which need to be taken by employers to help employees with cancer.

Legal & General has revealed that nearly two thirds (60%) of its critical illness claims during 2014 were cancer related.

People in England are less likely to develop cancer than those in other high-income countries in Europe, a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

Cancer related deaths could be ‘effectively eliminated' except in late old age by 2050 if the current trends in treatment and prevention continue, a report from UCL has found.

The NHS has announced the drugs which are being removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) along with the planned increases in the fund's budget.

Employees are feeling pressured to return to work with 22% feeling pressure to return straight after their treatment finished, a survey for Bupa has found.

NHS England has announced new measures to improve cancer survival rates at diagnosis and treatment stages.

There will be 2.5m people with cancer in the UK over the course of 2015, analysis by Macmillan Cancer Support has found.

Sarah Jewell, founder and chief executive officer of ALC Health has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list.