THE proportion of patients diagnosed with cancer at an early stage has risen to its highest level on record, NHS figures in England show reports the BBC.
Data for the 13 most common cancers show 58.7% of those diagnosed between September 2023 and August 2024 were identified at stages one and two, which increases the chances of survival.
That is 2.7 percentage points up since before the pandemic – and the highest since records began more than 10 years ago.
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