article_snippet: Cancer survival rates in Britain lag more than ten years behind those in many other European countries, experts warn.
article_snippet: Even for breast cancer – one of the most treatable forms of the disease
article_snippet: For lung cancer, Cancer survival rates in Britain are so far behind that patients in Britain are now half as likely to survive as those living in Austria.
article_snippet: Cancer survival rates in Britain lag more than ten years behind those in many other European countries, despite billions of pounds being spent to improve the UK's survival rates (file picture, posed by models)
article_snippet: Data analysed by Macmillan shows that 81 per cent of breast cancer sufferers in Britain survive five years.
article_snippet: In France, Sweden and Italy the survival rates are now 86 per cent or higher.
article_snippet: For bowel cancer, 54 per cent of Britons can expect to survive five years, whereas in the late 1990s it was already 59 per cent in Finland and 55 per cent in Norway, the Netherlands and France.
article_snippet: The five-year survival rate for lung cancer here is currently 10 per cent
article_snippet: What we can see here is that better cancer survival rates are not unachievable.
article_snippet: It is estimated that about half of us will get cancer at some point in us lifetimes.
article_snippet: our figures are taken from a comparison of survival rates of European countries carried out by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, known as the ‘Concord programme’.
article_snippet: NHS is helping more people than ever survive cancer.
highlights_snippet: Cancer survival rates more than 10 years behind other European countries .
  
highlights_snippet: Breast cancer survival rates in UK below those achieved by others in 1990s .
  