UK behind other European nations in cancer survival rates

Filed under: All Cancers, Research

Although British citizens have excellent access to medical care, the country lags behind other countries when it comes to cancer survival rates according to a very large study.

The Eurocare-4 study looked at 2.7 million cancer patients diagnosed between 1995 and 1999. Not only is that number statistically significant, it covered patients in 23 European countries. Yes, I think that is pretty expansive.

The results showed that Britain did in fact have blow-average five-year cancer survival rates among the eight most common cancers. This seems to signal that the UK Department of Health's cancer plan has in fact failed miserably. I wonder if western-style nutrition was a contributor here?

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[Source: The Cancer Blog]