Meeting description: We highlighted the key issues currently affecting people with pancreatic cancer in Scotland - these are delays in diagnosis and treatment the need for more research investment to be ringfenced for pancreatic cancer and a lack of support and information being provided at the point of diagnosis - and informed those present of actions they could take to improve services in their local constituency for their constituents for example writing to their local health board to raise the importance of expanding Early Cancer Diagnosis Clinics and writing to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care about pancreatic cancer. We highlighted our 'No Time to Wait' campaign which calls for urgent action in the forthcoming Scottish Cancer Strategy to prioritise pancreatic and the other less survivable cancers. There was also an opportunity for individuals affected by pancreatic cancer to discuss with Members their own personal experience of pancreatic cancer.
Topic label: Health