Topic: Inequality

Our latest figures reveal that three in four people aren’t aware that obesity causes cancer.

Yesterday we published our report looking in detail at the challenges Wales faces. Here’s what we found and our recommendations for how the government can make improvements.

We take a detailed look at the findings of the recent Cancer Patient Experience Surveys, which ran in England and Scotland.

We take a critical look at the issues facing end of life care in the UK and what’s being done to resolve them.

We discuss a recent report showing how the tobacco industry has misrepresented scientific evidence on health inequalities to the Government.

John Butler is a Consultant Gynaecologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital. Here, he gives us his thoughts on new data on surgery in the NHS.

A new report links social inequality to more than 15,000 extra cases of cancer each year, and – even more alarmingly – more than 19,000 extra deaths.

Ahead of the 2015 General Election, we’ve compiled a list of 10 recommendations for action we think the next government should focus on to help beat cancer.

Despite common (mis)conception that cancer is a ‘modern’ disease of Western society (which we’ve discussed here), well over half of…

Professor Kate Pickett is a Cancer Research UK-funded health researcher, and co-author of  The Spirit Level. In this guest blog…