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

andrew kaye, head of policy at macmillan cancer support said it was �shocking� that a cancer patient had to wait 541 days for treatment..

the provider paid out on 7,469 life and 1,769 critical illness claims in the year, with men accounting for 59 per cent of life claims and 47 per cent of critical illness claims.. september 2009  (17).