Cancer has no time for late-comers

03 November 2015 - 02:11
By ©Daily Telegraph

One in four British cancer patients are unlikely to live longer than six months after diagnosis because they - and GPs - are missing signs of the disease, new figures show. Nearly 90000 Britons do not know they have got cancer until they arrive at accident and emergency wards, by which time only 36% will live longer than a year.

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