MAIL ONLINE: Why nearly 40% of cancers are only diagnosed when patients turn up at A&E: It's a shameful statistic - especially when many of them had repeatedly sought help from doctors but their condition was missed

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Period	11 Apr 2022

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Title	Why nearly 40% of cancers are only diagnosed when patients turn up at A&E: It's a shameful statistic - especially when many of them had repeatedly sought help from doctors but their condition was missed
Media name/outlet	Mail Online
Media type	Web
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	11/04/22
Description	Research published last week revealed more than a third of cancer cases in the UK are only diagnosed after the patient went to A&E with cancer-related symptoms. The UK figures are far higher than in other, comparable high-income countries such as Canada and Norway. Furthermore, people who end up in A&E were less likely to survive, particularly if they have stomach, bowel, liver, pancreatic, lung or ovarian cancer, according to the study by the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership and Cancer Research UK. As these figures are pre-pandemic (the data are from 2012 to 2017), there is a real fear that the numbers will be even bleaker in the wake of the Covid restrictions on healthcare access.
URL	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10709025/Why-nearly-40pc-cancers-diagnosed-patients-turn-E.html
Persons	Dafydd Evans, Gordon Jayson