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TTE the week in numbers

Bad figures for cancer patients and loads of BBC drivel.

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the percentage of cancer patients who started treatment within 62 days of cancer being suspected, 

Nearly 100,000 waited longer than they should for life-saving care.

Warning: these figures come from the BBC’s analysis of cancer waiting times. The BBC’s standards of reporting and their partisan approach to healthcare (see below) means that you should…

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