Cancer Death Rates A 'National Scandal'
Daily Record|November 01, 2021
Baillie says health inequalities across country are 'shameful
Chris McCall
Cancer Death Rates A 'National Scandal'

PEOPLE living in the most deprived parts of Scotland are 66 per cent more likely to die from cancer than those in the most affluent areas, figures reveal.

Scottish Labour branded the level of inequality revealed in Public Health Scotland statistics for 2019 as “nothing short of a national scandal.

The shocking figures showed those from the most deprived areas are 28 per cent more likely to get cancer than those from the least deprived - and 66 per cent more likely to die from the condition.

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