Treatment of prostate cancer lags behind other cancers

British men with prostate cancer are still not getting the treatment they need, despite a recent drive to improve standards in cancer care, NHS chiefs have admitted.

Nigel Crisp, chief executive of the NHS, and Mike Richards, the national cancer director for England, appeared before the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee last week to update MPs on progress since the publication of the NHS cancer plan in 2000. The plan had promised more resources to tackle the disease.

The committee agreed that, in general, progress had …