article_snippet: Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the figures showed David Cameron had 'damaged the care that Cancer patients are receiving' Andy Burnham, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said the figures were 'damning evidence' of A Labour Government's failure on NHS waiting lists.
article_snippet: Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: 'Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has presided over a major cut in the cancer budget in this Parliament and this has damaged the care that cancer patients are receiving. '
article_snippet: All the gains that Labour made have been lost and NHS NHS is heading in the wrong direction.
article_snippet: Thousands of families are waiting too long for tests, facing all the anxiety that means, and Cancer is being diagnosed at a later stage where treatment is less likely to be successful. '
article_snippet: NHS NHS can't survive five more years of the Tories.
article_snippet: Families struggling with cancer can't take the risk and, despite all the warnings, persisted with an NHS reorganisation that disrupted cancer services.'
highlights_snippet: This is more than five times higher than May 2010 when Coalition took over .
  