CANCER patients from across the region are being asked for their views on the treatment they have received.

The Cancer Care Alliance wants to use patients' views to help improve the care it offers to them and their families.

A number of patients from across Teesside, North Yorkshire and South Durham have already volunteered to take part in the project which aims to involve sufferers in deciding how care is provided.

Other patients have filled in special questionnaires about their care but have yet to join a discussion group.

Claire Turner, lead nurse for the alliance, said: "We have a number of people willing to join our focus groups to discuss various aspects of the care they and their families have received. But if anyone has not been contacted who would like to take part and who has filled in a questionnaire we would like them to get in touch with us.

"One of the aims of the Cancer Care Alliance is to ensure that cancer services are genuinely patient centred.

"To do this we need to listen to what people using these services say and wherever possible, to act on it."

Ms Turner can be contacted on (01642) 850850.