Cancer survival in the UK is on the up, but is still lagging behind other high-income countries, analysis suggests. Five-year survival rates for rectal and colon cancer improved the most since 1995, and pancreatic cancer the least. Advances in treatment and surgery are thought to be behind the UK’s progress. But the UK still performed… Read More: Cancer survival in the UK improving, but lagging behind –… »
NSW comprehensive children’s cardiac services are falling further behind other states, a leading pediatric surgeon has told a crisis meeting in Sydney. Health workers, administrators and parents are split on a proposed move to cease heart surgery at one of the state’s two premier children’s hospitals – Sydney Children’s Hospital at Randwick and the Children’s… Read More: NSW lagging on children’s heart surgery »
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