Postcode lottery again

More research on cancer inequalities, this time from the Roy Castle Foundation, which has looked at lung cancer treatment in England. Along with significant geographical variation, the report identifies socio-economic derived inequalities: people living in deprived areas are less likely to receive chemotherapy. Survival rates for lung cancer are not associated with socio-economic deprivation, but they are with breast cancer, according to a report from the National Cancer Intelligence Network. In this study of breast cancers diagnosed in 2007, poorer women who presented with cancer symptoms had noticeably worse 5-year survival rates than more affluent women, while there was only a slight difference between most and least deprived women whose cancer had been diagnosed via screening.