Cancer survival improves in UK but still lags behind other high income countries

More people are surviving cancer for longer, but the UK has made slower progress than other high income countries, a large international study has found. The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership analysed data on 3.9 million people with cancer from 1995 to 2014 in seven countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, and the UK. The study, published in Lancet Oncology ,1 looked at changes in survival, alongside...