UK trails other countries on waiting times for cancer treatment, study finds

Research compared access to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in Australia, Canada, Norway and UK

Cancer patients in the UK wait up to seven weeks longer to begin radiotherapy or chemotherapy than people in comparable countries, research has revealed.

The stark findings are yet more damning evidence of the extent to which the UK lags behind other nations, as experts warn that people's chances of survival are being affected by long waits for treatment.