Craig Whittaker – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Craig Whittaker on 2016-07-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted on variations in cancer survival rates between different (a) parts of the UK and (b) socio-economic groups.

David Mowat

Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service has published data on variation in cancer survival linked with deprivation as part of its Routes to Diagnosis project. This covers 55 different cancers and shows that, on the whole, survival is poorer in more deprived populations. Full results are available at the following link:

www.ncin.org.uk/publications/routes_to_diagnosis

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