1,500 lung cancer deaths 'unnecessary'

1,500 lung cancer deaths 'unnecessary': Report finds sufferers are not being offered operations to remove tumours and too few surgeons are skilled at performing themAbout 1,500 lung cancer patients die unnecessarily every year because they are not offered an operation and too few NHS surgeons are skilled in removing tumours, a report warns today.Most hospitals offer surgery to far fewer patients than the 30% of people with the disease who doctors believe would benefit from treatment, according to an audit of 400,000 lung cancer operations. The Guardian