Radiotherapy in UK is feared and underused

Radiotherapy has an image problem, says a newly created pressure group. The National Radiotherapy Awareness Initiative reports that less than a 10th of people in the United Kingdom regard the intervention as a “modern cancer treatment.” This and other negative views of radiotherapy may be contributing to its underuse in cancer treatment in Britain. The claim is made on the basis of a YouGov online survey of 2000 UK adults. The survey has also unearthed the equally dispiriting finding that only 15% of people see radiotherapy as a precise form of …