BBC NEWS | Health : Prostate cancer action plan urged

The [UK] government has been urged to draw up an action plan to improve prostate cancer services across the NHS.

Patients with the disease, which kills 10,000 men in England annually, are a low priority and treated unfairly, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said.

MPs also said that while there had been improvements, many patients in England with suspected cancer were still waiting too long to see a specialist……

Committee chairman Edward Leigh said: “Prostate cancer… is regarded as a lower priority than other common cancer when it comes to the provision of specialist care.

“The inequitable treatment of this group of NHS patients is entirely unacceptable.”

…Chief executive of the Prostate Cancer Charity John Neate said the committee had “shone a searching light” on the problem and he urged the government to act quickly.

“There are major gaps - reinforced by our own research - in the care, quality and consistency of information [patients] get, as well as support during what, for many men, is a time of great anxiety and complex decision making.”
BBC NEWS | Health | Prostate cancer action plan urged