instead putting patients at risk. one such target is for cancer treatment to begin. it s meant to be a maximum of 62 days, roughly two months, but ian binn s waited four months. by the time he started chemotherapy, his stage i cancer had become stage iv. he told me the wait for treatment was easily the worst time in his life. i d wake up every morning wondering if i had a future, wondering that every day the cancer would be advancing within me. strangely enough, when it got to about three and a half months, i became almost resolved in thinking, this is too late, nothing good is going to happen to you now, which was the case, the scan had shown it had spread. bbc analysis has found the vast majority of the key nhs targets have been missed for seven years or more. it looked at maximum waits for cancer treatment to begin last hit in england in 2015