Progress in cancer survival rates in the UK has “slowed down”, experts have warned.

The news comes as a study suggests survival between the most and least deadly types of the disease is wider than ever before.

A national cancer plan was “essential” to “bring cancer survival trends back towards the best in the world”, researchers said.

The study, led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and funded by Cancer Research UK, analysed long-term trends in the cancer survival index (CSI) for adults across England and Wales from 1971 to 2018.

Thanks to research, most patients today are far more likely to survive their cancer than at any point in the past. But the reality is that this progress is slowing - and for some cancers, it never got going in the first place Miche

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