Older cancer patients written off

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Some cancer patients are being "written off" as too old for treatment, a charity has warned.

Macmillan Cancer Support said too many patients were assessed just by their age and not their overall fitness.

It comes as research looking at data from 1991-2010 suggests some 130,000 people diagnosed with cancer after age 65 survived for more than 10 years.

NHS England acknowledged that it needed to deliver better services to people in the over-65 age group.
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