News World news Cancer NHS launches £8m campaign to increase early cancer diagnosis
March 8th, 2010
The NHS is to urge people to report telltale signs of cancer to their GP in an attempt to reduce the 10,000 deaths caused by late diagnosis of the disease each year.
The Department of Health is providing £8m for primary care trusts (PCTs) across England to fund campaigns to raise the profile of the UK’s three biggest cancer killers – breast, bowel and lung cancer.
Between them, the three forms of the disease account for around 63,400 of the 155,000 cancer deaths in the UK each year.