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Cancer ten years on: improvements across the whole care pathway

  • Document type:
    Report
  • Author:
    Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director
  • Published date:
    29 April 2007
  • Publication format:
    A4; electronic only
  • Gateway reference:
    8178
  • Pages:
    8
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown

Outcomes from cancer are improving. Death rates in people under the age of 75 years are falling by around 2% per annum – overall cancer mortality in people under 75 fell by nearly 16% between 1996 and 2004.

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