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A record 2.5 million people are now living with cancer or the after-effects of it, threatening “a crisis of unmanageable proportions” for the NHS, a leading charity has warned.
Macmillan Cancer Support said improving survival rates had created a growing number of people who had not returned to full health because of serious side effects.
Better detection of cancers and the increasing success of treatments have led to half of cancer patients today expected to survive the disease.
But Macmillan said the long-term burden of side effects would put “huge pressure” on the NHS, and called for political parties to commit to “urgent action” on cancer care in their manifestos.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ause-unmanageable-crisis-for-nhs-9959106.html
Macmillan Cancer Support said improving survival rates had created a growing number of people who had not returned to full health because of serious side effects.
Better detection of cancers and the increasing success of treatments have led to half of cancer patients today expected to survive the disease.
But Macmillan said the long-term burden of side effects would put “huge pressure” on the NHS, and called for political parties to commit to “urgent action” on cancer care in their manifestos.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ause-unmanageable-crisis-for-nhs-9959106.html