Patients: Rectal Cancer

patients: The good news is that the outlook for patients suffering from major forms of cancer has got much better, according to The Guardian. On an age standardised basis, fewer than half of patients with rectal cancer in the UK lived more than five years in 1995. And an international study published this week shows that while the UK is making rapid progress, there's still a big gap in the survival rates cancer patients can expect in Britain compared with countries such as Australia, Canada and Norway. By 2014, more than 60% did. There is a risk that some countries look as though their patients are more likely to live extra years just because they have started counting sooner. And we should take the bad news with a pinch of salt because comparing cancer survival across countries is so inherently difficult. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.