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Cancer survival will go from ‘bad to worse’ unless the Government reverses its decision to scrap a long-term plan dedicated to fighting the disease, leading doctors have warned.
Thousands of lives have been put at risk by merging the existing ten-year scheme into a multi-disease strategy, they say.
In a letter to Health Secretary Steve Barclay, the oncologists have warned that cancer was ‘too complex and too costly’ to treat without a dedicated national plan.
They argue there is ‘no clinical basis’ behind the decision and suggest that, without a specific focus, ‘cancer services will be lost in the wilderness for a decade’.
Last spring, then-health secretary Sajid Javid promised a ‘war on cancer’ in a bid to recover services badly hit by the pandemic.
In a letter to Health Secretary Steve Barclay, the oncologists have warned that cancer was ‘too complex and too costly’ to treat without a dedicated national plan
But Mr Barclay recently announced that the
