End-of-life care heading for ‘meltdown’ without cash boost, warns cancer charity chief

End-of-life care heading for ‘meltdown’ without cash boost, warns cancer charity chief End-of-life care is heading for a “meltdown” amid growing demand for services, warns the chief of a cancer charity, following a new analysis of projected deaths from the disease published today.

Nearly 144,000 people are expected to die of cancer in 2020, says Macmillan Cancer Support—equivalent to one person dying of the disease every four minutes, with potentially 15,000 more cancer deaths in 2020 in England than in 2010. OnMedica