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An audit of GP services in the UK has been launched today to find out how quickly cancer patients are referred.

Deaths are higher in cancer patients whose GPs do not regularly send patients through the two-week urgent referral route for suspected cancer.

If it takes more than three trips to the GP to be referred for cancer tests, patients are more likely to be dissatisfied with their overall care.

Whether or not patients see the same GP could affect how quickly bowel and lung cancers are diagnosed, according to a Cancer Research UK study.

Cancer Research UK is urging scientists, doctors and nurses to get involved to ensure Wikipedia is as accurate as possible.

People with cancers of the mouth and oesophagus are waiting longer between first noticing a symptom and going to their GPs than other patients.

GPs across England are set to benefit from a new partnership aimed at improving the early diagnosis of cancer.
 

The time taken to diagnose some of the more common cancers fell in adults by an average of five days in just under a decade.

More than 8 in 10 men living with prostate cancer may not be getting the nursing care they need.

Cancer patients under 55 want more of a say in the decisions made about their treatment, according to new research being published in the British Journal of Cancer.