US EditionThe deadly cancers left behind by 50 years of success
Survival rates for deadly cancers like pancreatic and lung remain below 20%, with overall improvement slowing since 2010, prompting calls for urgent government action.
- Amid growing survival disparities, the study released Wednesday showed that progress in cancer survival rates across England and Wales has slowed since 2010.
- Data review shows the pace of improvement has slowed since the early 2000s, with the 10-year CSI rising only 1.4% between 2010/11 and 2015/16.
- Experts highlighted widening survival gaps, with testicular cancer reaching 97% at ten years, while pancreatic, oesophageal, stomach, lung, and brain cancers remain below 20%.
- The study calls for a "new, long-term National Cancer Plan" as the slowdown since 2010 is partly due to longer waits for diagnosis and treatment, despite 95,000 more diagnoses or rule-outs within 28 days between July 2024 and May 2025.
- The government said a new strategy is due soon, with plans to fully roll out lung cancer screening in England by 2029, following a February call for evidence for a national cancer plan.
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Speed of improvement in cancer survival rates ‘slowing’, say experts
The Government launched a call for evidence to help shape a national cancer plan earlier this year. Progress in cancer survival rates in the UK has “slowed down”, experts have warned. The news comes as a study suggests survival between the most and least deadly types of the disease is wider than ever before. A national cancer plan was “essential” to “bring cancer survival trends back towards the best in the world”, researchers said. The study, l…
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Getty Images The number of people surviving cancer has improved hugely in the past 50 years, but experts warn progress has been uneven with some cancers with the worst survival rates falling further behind. For some, including melanoma skin cancer, 10-year survival is now above 90% in England and Wales, while for all cancers half of patients can expect to live that long – double the figure in the early 1970s. But a London School of Hygiene and …
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The number of people surviving cancer has improved hugely in the past 50 years, but experts warn progress has been uneven with some of the cancers with the worst survival rates falling further behind. For some, including melanoma skin cancer, 10-year survival is now above […]
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