All Cancer articles – Page 58
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News75% of children with cancer 'must travel for care'
Three out of four children with cancer have to travel to another city for treatment, according to a new report.
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NewsLung cancer rates for women soar
Rates of lung cancer in women have soared in a sign that efforts to persuade them to quit smoking have failed, research reveals.
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Comment'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'
Post-Blair Labour health “reforms” overemphasised a centrist, target driven culture that tended to distort how care might best be delivered. It marginalised clinical staff, leaving them often to adopt a stance of disgruntled passivity.
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NewsPlain packaging for cigarettes planned
Tobacco companies could be forced to sell cigarettes in grey or brown plain packaging in an attempt to deter youngsters from taking up smoking.
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CommentOur lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands
Helping GPs to hone their skill at identifying cancer early will go a long way to improving survival rates
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NewsNHS cancer spending queried by National Audit Office
Huge variability in regional cancer spending suggests worrying inefficiency, the National Audit Office has warned.
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NewsQuarter of cancers found during emergency care
Nearly a quarter of cancer diagnoses in England are made when patients arrive at hospital in an emergency, a study has found.
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NewsUK women 'more likely to die of cancer'
Women in the UK are more likely to die of cancer than in the rest of Europe, figures have revealed.
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NewsFormer RSM president condemns NHS reforms as 'anathema'
A leading doctor has warned of the damage that could be done to the standard of cancer treatment in the UK by the government’s plans for the NHS.
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NewsFormer NHS chief attacks private health insurance 'lottery'
Former NHS chief executive Lord Nigel Crisp has attacked a lack of transparency in private health insurance policies, which he claims has created a “private healthcare lottery”.
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CommentThe Mid Staffs inquiry and NHS redundancies
The national media’s week was not surprisingly dominated by the start of the Mid Staffs public inquiry.
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CommentMichael White: health panel discussions
As I type I can hear this week’s opening of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry being discussed on the radio.
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CommentTreading softly on cancer's dreams
It is good to see old fashioned centralisation is alive and well in sensitive matters.
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NewsSmoking cessation rates 'follow economy downwards'
The rate at which people are quitting smoking has slowed down at the same time as economic worries have increased, data suggests.
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NewsTrust loses cancer screening service over biopsy failings
The breast screening service in north Cumbria is to be restructured after an investigation concluded it failed to carry out needle biopsies in enough cases, leading to delays in diagnosing 16 patients.
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CommentThe NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts
The NHS’s funding increase is actually a 0.5 per cent cut - efficiency savings of 4-5 per cent will have to be found.
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Comment'Complaints about NICE on one page and useless, costly drugs on another'
After a summer in which Labour’s health team was off fighting a leadership contest and the Liberal Democrat team was co-opted into government, health politics are livening up. No more Mr Nice Guy seems to be John Healey’s message.
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NewsMale life expectancy increases to 78
Life expectancy for men has increased by almost three years in the last decade, closing the gender gap with women, government figures showed today.
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NewsMore choice needed in end of life care, says King's fund report
More should be done to give patients and carers choice about end of life care, according to a report by the King’s Fund.
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NewsFall in cervical cancer screening numbers
The number of women tested for cervical cancer dropped this year, figures show, prompting concerns the “Jade Goody effect” may be tailing off.