'Postcode lottery' in prostate cancer care costs thousands of lives a year

'Postcode lottery' in prostate cancer care costs thousands of lives a year A ‘postcode lottery’ in prostate cancer care is costing thousands of lives a year, a charity has warned.

Men living in parts of the North East are almost six times more likely to be diagnosed after their cancer has spread than in the country’s top performing trusts.

Patients in northern counties are also significantly less likely to have access to cutting-edge diagnostics and treatment compared with the South, analysis by Prostate Cancer Research found. The Daily Mail