‘Patients are choosing palliative care over cancer treatment’ due to lack of local services, CEO warns

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Patients in part of the East of England are choosing to begin palliative care over cancer treatment because of prohibitive travel times and costs to get to the nearest specialist centre, a local system leader has warned.

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