What's causing the cancer care gap?

We’ve made huge progress on cancer in the last 50 years.  But not all of it has been felt equally. People’s experience of the healthcare system, and ultimately how likely they are to be successfully diagnosed and treated, varies massively. These are known as health inequalities and can be caused by a range of factors.  In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we’re exploring how deprivation impacts cancer inequalities and what we can do to narrow the gap.  We speak to Cancer Research advocate and public health manager for Luton, Elizabeth Bailey, the lead researcher of the Inequalities Cancer Outcome Network programme, Professor Bernard Rachet and Julia Cotterill, a health information officer here at Cancer Research UK.     Find out more about World Cancer Day:  https://www.worldcancerday.org/close-care-gap https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/02/02/world-cancer-day-2024/  Find out more about ICON and their work  Read more about health inequalities     For more cancer stories, visit Cancer News   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 7 of the That Cancer Conversation podcast, hosted by Cancer Research UK, titled "What's causing the cancer care gap?" was published on February 26, 2024 and runs 36 minutes.

February 26, 2024 ·36m · That Cancer Conversation

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Summary

We’ve made huge progress on cancer in the last 50 years. But not all of it has been felt equally. People’s experience of the healthcare system, and ultimately how likely they are to be successfully diagnosed and treated, varies massively. These are known as health inequalities and can be caused by a range of factors. In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we’re exploring how deprivation impacts cancer inequalities and what we can do to narrow the gap. We speak to Cancer Research advocate and public health manager for Luton, Elizabeth Bailey, the lead researcher of the Inequalities Cancer Outcome Network programme, Professor Bernard Rachet and Julia Cotterill, a health information officer here at Cancer Research UK.   Find out more about World Cancer Day:  https://www.worldcancerday.org/close-care-gap https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/02/02/world-cancer-day-2024/ Find out more about ICON and their work Read more about health inequalities   For more cancer stories, visit Cancer News   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Description

We’ve made huge progress on cancer in the last 50 years.

But not all of it has been felt equally. People’s experience of the healthcare system, and ultimately how likely they are to be successfully diagnosed and treated, varies massively. These are known as health inequalities and can be caused by a range of factors.

In this episode of That Cancer Conversation, we’re exploring how deprivation impacts cancer inequalities and what we can do to narrow the gap.

We speak to Cancer Research advocate and public health manager for Luton, Elizabeth Bailey, the lead researcher of the Inequalities Cancer Outcome Network programme, Professor Bernard Rachet and Julia Cotterill, a health information officer here at Cancer Research UK.

Find out more about World Cancer Day:

Find out more about ICON and their work