Around 300,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in England and Wales in
2011. The best way of tackling the disease is for patients to receive
an early diagnosis, as this improves the chances of beating cancer. If
cancer is caught at an early stage before the disease has spread,
treatment is more likely to be successful.
Yet not enough is currently being done in England to identify cancer and
treat it an early stage. Up to 10,000 people in England could be dying
each year due to late diagnoses.
To help GPs ensure they are making prompt and accurate diagnoses,
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has updated its suspected cancer guideline and has included a number of tables which link symptoms to the cancers they are associated with. Read more here.
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