Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson have launched a new Cancer Strategy which, supported by an investment of £370 million by 2010, will transform existing cancer care.
Labour’s Cancer Strategy will build a world-class cancer service, saving more lives and ensuring patients get the care they deserve. Cancer is a major health problem, one in three of the population will develop cancer and one in four will die from it.
Labour has made major progress on cancer over the past ten years; from extending screening for breast and bowel cancer to reducing waiting times for referral and treatment for cancer patients.
Labour’s new cancer strategy will do more to prevent cancer, diagnose cancer more quickly and provide even better cancer care. Measures will include further extending breast and bowel cancer screening, investing £200 million to increase radiotherapy capacity and a new HPV vaccine to help reduce cervical cancer.
But largely due to the ageing population, the incidence of cancer is increasing. So what more do you think we should be doing to prevent cancer?