People putting their lives at risk by dismissing cancer symptoms
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
People could be putting their lives at risk by dismissing potential warning signs of cancer as less serious symptoms, according to new research. More than half (53 per cent) of 1,700 people who completed a health questionnaire said they had experienced at least one red-flag cancer ‘alarm’ symptom during the previous three months. But only two per cent of them thought that cancer was a possible cause.