Dean met with representatives from the 'Less survivable cancer team' yesterday on the eve of the awareness day.
Currently, in the UK over 90,000 people are sadly diagnosed with one of the less survivable cancers every year.
Despite accounting for over 40% of common cancer deaths, the less survivable cancers still suffer from low awareness amongst the public and health practitioners. Delays in diagnosis have a detrimental effect on survival of these rapidly-advancing diseases, which are currently difficult or impossible to treat at later stages.
If you have a less survivable cancer, you are twice as likely not to be diagnosed until your symptoms are severe enough to go to hospital, compared to someone with a more survivable cancer. Late diagnosis and a slow pathway to treatment can severely limit treatment options for patients, who then face poorer survival prospects.
Between 2002 and 2014, the less survivable cancers received just 16.6% of research funding of more survivable cancers. Greater research will be critical to increasing survival.
Learn more here https://lesssurvivablecancers.org.uk/the-less-survivable-cancers/
