Cancer Survivorship in the UK: Routes from Diagnosis

Patients understand well how disjointed their care can be. This report shows how often patients are facing cancer in the context of other illnesses, either during treatment or during the years that follow. All the clinicians who see cancer patients after their treatment need to be aware of the issues cancer survivors may face. We need to know not only how many patients are dealing with significant consequences of cancer and its treatment and other morbidities, but which particular patients are affected. We believe the key to unlocking improvements in cancer care is to understand the variations in survival outcomes, morbidity and cost between patient groups, joining up previously disparate sets of data to paint a detailed picture of cancer survivorship.