A dangerous form of bone cancer is often misdiagnosed by GPs as growing pains, a charity said.
Just 42% of people who get osteosarcoma, which mainly affects children and young adults, will survive for five years after diagnosis, the Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) said.
The charity wants faster X-ray referrals by GPs after a report from the National Cancer Intelligence Network found survival rates for primary bone cancer have not changed in the past 25 years. They improved for nearly every other cancer in that period.
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