Charity invests 1.5m to address Yorkshire's postcode lottery of bowel cancer survival rates

BOWEL cancer patients in the Bradford and Airedale districts have some of the highest one year survival rates in the country, according to Public Health England data. But outcomes for bowel cancer across Yorkshire vary widely between hospitals and lag behind the best UK and European institutions, according to Yorkshire Cancer Research , which is now using these postcode lottery figures from across the region to highlight the difference in standards of treatment and care for the disease.