Cancer survival hinges on “deadly Postcode Lottery” | UK | News

Women with ovarian cancer fail by a fatal postal code that may mean the difference between life and life in treatment and death.

Today, the study, as a separate analysis, shows that the crisis goes far beyond ovarian cancer.

Ovarian cancer work reveals survival rates, waiting times and shocking gaps in accessing treatment – experts warn that the crisis is out of control.

Analysis, published by the Policy Research Center, Future Health faces inequality depending on where patients live, after being diagnosed too late for women in many parts of the country.

Explained:

1 out of 4 women with advanced ovarian cancer was not recorded.

71% of ovarian cancers were caught in late stage 3 or 4.

41.4% of women were diagnosed only after emergency admission.

Depending on the postal code, 22%of one -year survival rates – South Yorkshire is the worst of 58%, and the best in North East London is 80%.

34% difference in treatment rates within three months after diagnosis.

Platinum -based chemotherapy, which is the standard primary step treatment in 1 out of 3 women, did not receive.

Ovarian cancer patients are not patients with fatal delays. Cancer analysis with Charity Catch shows that one -third of cancer patients – 103,281 people – last year waiting longer than two -month treatment target. This is very short than 85% NHS guidance.

And a report in Lancet Oncology magazine warns that the gains of survival due to longer waiting has been slowing down since 2010.

Professor Pat Price, Oncologist and Cancer with Cancer, Professor Pat Price, a founding partner with cancer, described the report as “shocking ve and said that he created a system on the threshold of figures:“ A deadly postal code affects unacceptable variation during waiting times, a person who has a person who has a person who can reach cancer treatment.

“Cancer treatment delays are normalized and patients pay the price. The delay every 4 weeks can lead to a 10% risk of death and is not enough.”

Future medical report writer Richard Sloggett, Future Health Program Director, called for action. This should include “prevention, public and clinical awareness and earlier diagnosis and increased access to treatment, investment in the upward investment in the upward direction”.

Dr Tracie Miles, who is the head nurse in the house appeal to the house, an ovarian cancer aid organization, said, “We regularly take calls from women and their families in length for appointments, tests and treatments. This should change. This cancer patients had a higher chance of survival.”

Research and Policy Director Marie -Claire Plat said in the Ovarian Cancer Action: “Ovarian cancer survival rates are lower than breast cancer in the 1970s today. Every year their chances of survival for thousands of women are affected by a shocking factor.

Ovarian cancer claims the lives of approximately 4,100 women in England every year. Uncertain early symptoms – bloating, abdominal pain, appetite changes – are usually mixed with benign conditions and allow the disease to spread uncontrolled.

Berkshire, 56 -year -old Sbba Siddiique from Slough, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2022, 53 years old. During that year, he went to the GP surgery and tired of a numerous time in having a tired, comfortable and swollen stomach. The GP made him sure that symptoms were not rare for an old woman and may be due to menopause.

He said the GP consultations were all over the phone, so he was not examined. Until December 2023, the skin expert, who saw him for a different problem, claimed that he insisted on a GP exam.

The tests confirmed that there was an ovarian cancer in which a surgeon he later discovered spread to his intestines.

Following two operations and a large number of chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatment, it is currently in remission.

Siddique said: “Treatment was very exhausting. I came to a point I had enough and I didn’t care about the result. He left me nerve damage in my legs and feet, but now I’m lucky to be in remission.

“Families lose their loved ones due to lack of timely care. Treatment is how good survival is. Something needs to be done.”

36 -year -old Sophie Dart, Holsworthy, the mother of three from Devon and the primary school teacher, in 2015, the GP complained about bloating, lost appetite and stomach pain.

Doctors have sent down it to stress, but at the end of that year, it was finally referred to a screening where doctors assume that they were not cancerous in the right ovary.

At that time, 25 -year -old Sophie was included in a waiting list for routine surgery to remove the cyst.

In January 2016, his partner called an ambulance while developing a compelling pain in his abdomen.

The blood tests in the hospital revealed that the cyst is cancerous and that MS Dart had surgery to remove ovarian and 3 rounds of chemotherapy for 10 weeks. Now in remission. “If GP had done tests, he would have marked before,” he said.

A NHS spokesman said: “NHS identifies more cancer at an earlier than ever before, but we know more with some cancers to ensure that we detect as early as possible when the treatment is more likely to be successful.

“Our network of national ovarian cancer on which this report is based is to help to address unjust delays or care for women with ovarian cancer, and to ensure that all patients take personalized cancer care in time when all patients need.”

A spokesman for a health and social care department said: uz As we neglect our NHS for more than ten years, we give priority to cancer care.

“Between July 2024 and May 2025, we see the diagnosis of cancer or 95,000 people who have been excluded from the previous year.

“The national cancer plan will determine how to increase survival rates and how to deal with unfair variation in the treatment of cancer throughout the country, including ovarian cancer.”