The study, conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, measured the survival index for 10.8 million adults diagnosed with cancer between 1971 and 2018, accounting for variables like age, sex, and cancer type.
However, the pace of progress has slowed in recent years.
The slowdown since 2010 “is likely to be at least partly explained by longer waits for diagnosis and treatment,“ said the report.
Most notably, the 10-year survival index for breast, cervix, rectum, prostate, testis, and uterus cancers plateaued in the last 10–15 years, while the index for larynx cancers decreased.
The study calls for a “new, long-term National Cancer Plan” to “bring cancer survival trends back towards the best in the world”.
The fourth national cancer strategy was published in 2015 but is now considered outdated as the current trajectory has failed to match its ambitious targets.
Plans for a fifth plan were withdrawn in January 2023, “leaving England as one of the few high-income countries in which a national cancer plan was not a central pillar of national health policy,“ said the report. – AFP
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