Claims made by David Cameron and Andrew Lansley about cancer care in the NHS have generated a row that shows no sign of diminishing.

There’s nothing like a breast cancer story to get the media stirred up.

Is David Cameron right to claim that people are dying because they cannot get access to cancer drugs?

Here's a quick test. Which of these two statements is true:

Latest data on mortality for common causes of death, published today, show progress on meeting most of the Department of Health mortality targets. But the way some of those targets were framed made success almost inevitable.