article_snippet: More than half a million cancer patients are being let down by failings in basic care, a leading charity warns.
article_snippet: This includes some 160,000 who are effectively left housebound because More than half a million cancer patients are being let down by failings in basic care, a leading charity warns are unable to walk, drive or use public transport.
article_snippet: Shocking: More than half a million cancer patients are being let down by failings in basic care, a leading charity warns .
article_snippet: the report by Macmillan estimates that around 512,000 patients with cancer – around one in three of the 1.6million diagnosed in the last ten years – do not get enough help.
article_snippet: the report by Macmillan is based on a survey of 1,037 cancer patients and a survey of 1,037 cancer patients and their carers carers.
article_snippet: Lynda Thomas of Macmillan Cancer Support said: ‘It is heartbreaking that so many people with cancer are not getting the practical support and personal care so many people with cancer desperately need, too often living with constant feelings of fear, anger and isolation as a result.
article_snippet: Lacking support: Macmillan estimates that around 512,000 patients with cancer do not get enough help .
article_snippet: Cancer patients are too often assumed to have all Cancer patients needs met by the NHS, because Cancer patients are thought to require purely medical care, Macmillan  added.
article_snippet: this unfair myth show that people with cancer have needs which are far more widespread than we had even realised and that sadly the health and social care systems are too often failing to provide basic support.
article_snippet: Macmillan has repeatedly warned that the health service is struggling to cope with the rising numbers of patients with cancer.
article_snippet: NHS England said: ‘We are diagnosing and treating more people with cancer than ever before, and as a result more people than ever are surviving.
highlights_snippet: Figures from leading charity paint shocking picture of cancer patient care .
  