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Improving quality of life during and after cancer treatment
Cancer survival rates are rising, but should more be done to improve the quality of survival?
Cancer survival rates are rising, but should more be done to improve the quality of survival?
Cancer diagnoses in England continue to rise with an average of 822 new cases per day in 2015, the latest government figures have revealed. But alongside this rise, the general trends for all childhood cancers combined show increasing five-year survival rates.
Adult survival rates across a range of measures are also showing general improvements.
299,923
new cancer diagnoses were registered in 2015
On the face of it this is good news, but what more needs to be done to improve the quality of survival?
The Office for National Statistics reported this February that 299,923 new cancer diagnoses were registered in
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