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And 12 weeks is about what most pancreatic cancer patients get from diagnosis. the latest data for england shows huge variation in survival chances for people diagnosed with certain cancers. whilst skin cancer has a five year survival rate of 92%, lung cancer is 20%. and pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest five year survival rates atjust 8%. charities say more awareness of symptoms is vital. the huge challenge for the less survival cancers is that they are often diagnosed as an emergency pre...

So much. he says in the 2020 election, these voting rules had only minor affects on turn out and no effect at all on the democratic turnout in the presidential election. so what might that mean for 2022 when many new laws have only recently been put in place. joining me, alan abramowitz, he performed an analysis for crystal ball uva where hes a senior economist. professor, what did you do and with what result? >> well, what i did, essentially was to analyze the variation in election laws that ex...

To save my family. wayne, thanks very much indeed. thank you. wayne rooney theyre speaking to sally nugent. wayne rooney theyre speaking to sally nugent. now on bbc news, your questions answered on coronavirus health reporterjim reed is here to take your questions. jim, they have been a lot of them, so lets get cracking, a few people have asked a variation of davids question. what about the millions of people who are immune deficient, and i am assuming this is with reference to that we could see...

So, let me ask you, where would you wear a mas and in what circumstances? >> your question is right on target in the sense of what im trying to help people understand is that were hoping, cant say for sure, but hoping that covid will take the traditional pattern that respiratory viruses do, which is that they start surging in the early or late fall and last with us through the winter, particularly in the northeast. we know that that has been the case consistently. and so we ramp up and ramp down...

Kind of throughout the internet newsscape. without getting into the policy meanings behind that phrase, as you mentioned, i think what we know is that theres no clear correlation between jurisdictions that made reductions to police budgets and the crime rate. in the small number of cities that shifted funding to social services, crime went up, stayed the same, or it went down. you can find that variation in cities where police budgets remain the same. or even increased. its absolutely about a po...

Answer is, you cant prepare in that way. it gives you the general topic area for the high tariff questions. do you think that is fair, given what this generation of students have been through? j what this generation of students have been through?— what this generation of students have been through? i think its the best ou have been through? i think its the best you can _ have been through? i think its the best you can do. — have been through? i think its the best you can do, by _ have been t...

Those opportunities, if you provide early voting. if you make absentee voting readily available. thats certainly true in 2020 because of the fact that the election was taking place during a pandemic. but what the research has shown and what my research shows is that while convenient and while widely used there still seems to be relative impact on either a percentage of relative voters that go to the polls or ultimately on which party they end up voting for. >> so how could you possibly know what...

>> well, i think the angle here, theres really two aspects to it for our particular patient as you noted identified as being mixed race. the cells that are resistant to hiv, natural genetic variation that occurs in probably less than 1% of people, and primarily people of northern european ancestry, when someone needs a transplant like this, they need to be matched with the donor cells, and because of that, it could be, you know, much more difficult for somebody who is not of european ancestry. b...

Across a trust, across the country, because they are having to teach, coverfor because they are having to teach, cover for other teachers, zoom of the children into the lessons come when at those children come back they have to catch those children up. so i think the variation across the country for young people is so significant and what teachers have gone through and what theyve done i think is remarkable.— think is remarkable. looking ahead to next year— think is remarkable. looking ahead...

Good surveillance, as the prime minister said, so that when you variant start to take off and we see the series surges, we know where they are and can respond in a targeted, rapid way to deal with them before they cause significant problems for individuals and the nhs. we must have the capacity rapidly to step up in terms of what were doing and we must be able to protect the most vulnerable. those are the critical things we need maintain, even beyond this next few weeks, into the rest of this ye...