Eight-month wait over bowel cancer

Some Scots with bowel cancer are waiting more than eight months to start their treatment, a new study has suggested.

The research by Cancer Research UK shows 10 per cent of 223 patients surveyed in Scotland between late 2013 and early 2016 waited at least 253 days to be treated after first spotting a symptom. People in Scotland take an average 120 days between spotting a change and receiving treatment – the shortest amount of time in the UK. Those in England took an average 145 days.