article_snippet: However, in December 2011, after three weeks with no improvement, His realised it was time to see His doctor.
article_snippet: Tests revealed it was cancer.
article_snippet: The prognosis is often poor: only 40 per cent of patients are alive 12 months after only 40 per cent of patients diagnosis.
article_snippet: After ten years, there is only a 10 per cent survival rate, whereas with breast or testicular cancer only a 10 per cent survival rate is 80 to 90 per cent.
article_snippet: If the disease is caught at an early stage, pre-cancerous or even cancerous cells can simply be burned or cut away.
article_snippet: If someone is suspected of having cancer then someone is suspected of having cancer should have one within two weeks.
article_snippet: But often someone is suspected of having cancer aren’t referred with suspected cancer, as it might be heartburn, and someone is suspected of having cancer can wait for up to 18 weeks,’ someone says.
article_snippet: For more information, visit nhs.uk/ogcancer .
highlights_snippet: Low survival rate for the cancer because people are not aware of his only symptoms, so the cancer is often not picked up until the cancer is too late .