New action plan to treat cancer faster
HEALTH Secretary Nicola Sturgeon today promised quicker treatment for cancer as she unveiled the Scottish Government's new action plan to tackle the disease.
She said by 2011, all patients diagnosed with cancer would receive treatment within 31 days from the date of decision to treat, and the current 62-day urgent "referral to treatment" target is to be extended to include patients who screen positive through one of the national screening programmes.
Ms Sturgeon also announced 500,000 funding to expand Macmillan Cancer Support's network of benefits advice services.
She said: "With the advances in diagnosis, radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy, responses to treatment and, comprehensive screening programmes to identify cancers at earlier stages, many more people are living with cancer and it is increasingly being seen as a long term condition."
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