A NORTH-EAST MP has launched a campaign to put cancer on the national political agenda.
Ashok Kumar, MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, took to the street outside his constituency office in Guisborough yesterday with giant pledge cards to support the Cancer Research Campaign's five key pledges.
These include matching charity funding for cancer pound for pound, reinforcing the need for 600 cancer specialists and 600 cancer nurses over the next three years, and guaranteeing up-to-date cancer screening.
Professor Gordon McVie, of the Cancer Research Campaign, said: "These five points should be a priority for the next Government and the Cancer Research Campaign pledges to the British people that we will urge politicians to act to ensure that they are top of the political agenda.
"The campaign is confident that cancer can be beaten by 2050, and we pledge to work tirelessly with the Government and politicians to achieve this."
Dr Kumar said: "I am happy to support this important initiative. Four in ten of us Britons will be diagnosed with cancer at some stage in our lives. Defeating the disease should be a priority for any Government."
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