New Department of Health figures show wide disparities in cancer survival rates across primary care trusts in England.
Here are the PCTs with the best and worst records for dealing with common types of cancer, in terms of the proportion of patients who are still alive one year after diagnosis:
Breast cancer
Worst
Tower Hamlets (89.3pc)
Hillingdon (89.5)
Barking and Dagenham (90.2)
Hastings and Rother (90.3)
West Hertfordshire (90.6)
Best
Torbay Care Trust (99.0)
Darlington (97.9)
Stockport (97.6)
Warrington (97.6)
Western Cheshire (97.6)
Colorectal cancer
Worst
Hastings and Rother (57.8)
Waltham Forest (57.9)
Tameside and Glossop (61.5)
Derby City (62.6)
Enfield (62.6)
Best
Telford and Wrekin (80.0)
City and Hackney (77.5)
Shropshire County (77.0)
Peterborough (76.7)
Plymouth Teaching (76.6)
Lung cancer
Worst
Herefordshire (15.4)
Milton Keynes (17.5)
Blackpool (18.3)
East and North Hertfordshire (20.3)
Hartlepool (21.1)
Best
Kensington and Chelsea (43.7)
Hammersmith and Fulham (35.3)
Richmond and Twickenham (35.2)
Islington (34.8)
South Birmingham (34.6)
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