.experts say years of cuts to nhs budgets and staff has led to patients waiting longer for chemotherapy and radiotherapy (file pic)..

the total amount paid out in critical illness claims was £75.19m, with cancer accounting for 74 per cent of claims from women, mainly breast cancer, alongside 51 per cent from men..

richard lipton, md, director, montefiore headache center; edwin s. lowe professor and vice chairman of neurology, albert einstein college of medicine.