Expatriate Insurance News: Cancer survival rates 'can be improved with faster diagnosis'

The survival rate for people with cancer could be improved if diagnoses were sped up, global health insurance policyholders may be interested to hear.

This is the view of Andrew Wilson-Webb, chief executive of the Rarer Cancers Forum, who noted that improvements can be made at the first step of the medical treatment process.

"Access to new medicines is one [way it could improve], the other is earlier diagnosis. Earlier diagnosis is really the key to pretty much everything," he explained.

"Early diagnosis will ...

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