Cancer services coming of age

Learning from the improving cancer treatment assessment and support for older people project
This report summarises a series of pilots that tested whether appropriate assessment of older cancer patients would result in improved access to appropriate cancer treatment, based on need and not age. It also tested whether action, as a result of an age appropriate assessment, improved the scope for older people to benefit from treatment.

• Report
• Department of Health – news

 

Also

Cancer Statistics from The King’s Fund

• Cancer survival by cancer network, patients diagnosed in 1997-2010 and followed up to 2011
• Combined cancer survival by PCT, patients diagnosed 1996-2010, followed up to 2011