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‘Cancer lotto’ is slammed; WORLDTODAY

0 Comments | Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), Dec 1, 2009

A CANCER charity slammed the “shocking” postcode lottery which means some parts of the country have lower survival chances.

Cancer Research UK said there was “no excuse” for the differences and called for urgent action from the Government.

The Department of Health’s cancer reform strategy report showed, for example, that a lung cancer patient in Hertfordshire was three times more likely to die within a year than a patient in Kensington and Chelsea.

It also found almost all Primary Care Trusts failed to match Europe’s best survival rates.