Cancer care awareness is a must

The UK must introduce measures to improve public understanding of cancer care according to delegates at this month's COVER Think Tank. Professor Hilary Thomas, group medical director at Care UK, said the key issues were on public education, recognition of early signs of disease and understanding about risk factors in their lifestyle. "As a country we are far behind European countries in that respect," she added. Also at the Think Tank, Alex Bennett, head of healthcare consulting at Aon Consulting, insisted however that there had been a shift in emphasis towards better education and unde...