Inside the NHS cancer crisis as senior doctors warn of treatment ‘disaster’

The NHS can offer more treatments for cancer than ever before, but clinicians warn that staff shortages mean patients cannot get these life-saving treatments in time, as Rebecca Thomas reports


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