UK lung cancer care must improve drastically, says report

Lung cancer specialists and charities have set out a strategy to raise the United Kingdom’s five year lung cancer survival rates to 25% by 2025.1

The UK Lung Cancer Coalition’s report, 25 by 25: a Ten Year Strategy to Improve Lung Cancer Survival Rates, calls for a dramatic improvement in lung cancer care to improve UK survival rates and prevent over 11 000 deaths a year. It says that UK governments must prioritise improving lung cancer survival and set up a UK-wide task force in …