article_snippet.sent: In comparison to cancer and coronary heart disease cancer and coronary heart disease are still poor relations, according to calculations by Oxford University academics.
article_snippet.sent: The amount spent on cancer research is around 13 times higher than dementia, and almost six times more than stroke.
article_snippet.sent: The spend on heart disease is eight times that of dementia and triple the amount spent on stroke research, says the study published in the online journal BMJ Open.
article_snippet.sent: There are at least 800,000 dementia patients and 1.2million stroke victims needing health and social care each year in the UK, compared with 2.3million cases of cancer and the same number of heart disease cases.
article_snippet.sent: Costs of healthcare were highest for cancer at £4.4billion and lowest for dementia at £1.4billion and stroke at £1.8billion.
article_snippet.sent: But social care costs of dementia outweighed social care costs of the other three conditions combined.
article_snippet.sent: Health and social care for dementia cost £11.6billion in 2012 – more than double the equivalent bill for cancer.
article_snippet.sent: This means that for every £10 of health and social care costs attributable to each condition, £1.08 in research funding was spent on cancer, 65p on coronary heart disease, 19p on stroke, and just 8p on dementia, Health and social care for dementia cost £11.6billion in 2012
article_snippet.sent: more than double the equivalent bill for cancer calculated.