Anger mounted yesterday over a refusal by health chiefs to use three mothballed cancer centres.
The units, set up by world-leading oncologist Professor Karol Sikora, are now in the hands of a private equity firm after going bust last year.
But experts claim tens of thousands of stricken patients could be diagnosed and treated if only the NHS agreed to negotiate rather than allow equipment to “gather dust” at a time cancer targets are routinely missed.
Prof Sikora, 75, called
On any given work day, 1,000 people in the UK are told they have cancer — a devastating diagnosis for anyone.
All too often, rather than passing quickly into line for first-class treatment, in many cases there is a lengthy delay — and even then the best treatment isn’t always on offer.
This is the view of a world-leading cancer specialist, who also believes that the British way of passively taking your spot in a queue not only for treatment
