I have often wondered about the benefits of living in a large city. I remember
being so happy that both of my sons were born in a moderately sized city, opposed to a small town, with a
state-of-the-art hospital to facilitate their complicated births.
Drawing a correlation, cancer treatment is somewhat the same - if you live in London, rather than some remote area in England you have a much better chance of survival. The mortality rates are still very different across England, even after the government launched its Cancer Plan to tackle the disease. There are many variations in the ability to receive vital drugs, screening, and survival rates. Nearly 90 percent of eligible women in certain areas are obtaining the wonder drug Herceptin for breast cancer, compared to 10 percent in other areas. This is a striking difference, I am happy it is being revised.
