- Patients facing ‘unnecessary delays’ that could affect opportunities of survival
- Lung and bowel cancer patients a lot more most likely to face prolonged treatment waits
- More compared to 11,000 patients had to wait a minimum of 104 days to be treated
- Work for The Mail on Sunday was done by Cancer Study UK
Stephen Adams, Healthiness Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday
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Cancer patients are routinely being required to wait months to begin treatment – along with those suffering from reduced profile conditions such as lung or bowel cancer faring even worse compared to those along with breast or skin cancer, brand-new figures reveal.
Over the past 2 years a lot more compared to 11,000 cancer sufferers had to wait three-and-a-half months or much longer to start chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery.
Cancer Study UK, which compiled the figures for The Mail on Sunday, said patients were facing ‘unnecessary delays’ that were potentially affecting their opportunities of survival.
Figures released by NHS England reveal the last time targets were reached for patients to begin treatment joined the last 3 months of 2013 – Healthiness Secretary Jeremy Hunt pictured along with Chancellor George Osborne on a visit to a hospital along with NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens
Patients along with lung and bowel cancer, which with each other kill 50,000 individuals a year in Britain, are more most likely to face prolonged waits for treatment compared to those along with breast and skin cancer, which combined kill 14,000.
The charity calculated that, throughout 2014 and 2015, 11,527 patients in England had to wait 104 days or a lot more for treatment to start after being urgently referred by a GP for suspected cancer, from a total of concerning 266,000.
The Government says that hospitals must make sure 85 per cent of cancer patients begin treatment within 62 days. However figures merely released by NHS England reveal the last time that happened joined the last 3 months of 2013.
In the current quarter, October to December 2015, just 83.5 per cent of patients checked out treatment begin in 62 days.
Some 95 per cent of individuals along with breast and skin cancer started treatment on time.
But among those along with lung cancer and ‘reduced gastrointestinal cancers’, a quarter had to wait a lot more compared to 62 days.
Cancer Study UK’s Sara Hiom said the wait for treatment was partly being caused by delays in diagnosis because of a lack of experts including radiologists and radiographers. She added: ‘Diagnosing and treating cancer while it’s at an early phase is a crucial factor in aiding individuals survive the disease.’
An NHS England spokesman said: ‘The NHS is aiding a lot more individuals survive cancer compared to ever before.’
Cancer Study UK, which compiled the figures for The Mail on Sunday, said patients were facing ‘unnecessary delays’ that were potentially affecting their opportunities of survival
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