An extra 10,000 people are likely to die of cancer because of the Covid pandemic, a study has suggested. University College London researchers said a drop in emergency referrals from GPs last year across the UK resulted in around 40,000 late diagnoses of the disease. These delays and longer waits for NHS treatment — fuelled by the pandemic — mean thousands will die ‘significantly earlier’ from the disease than would have been the case pre-pandemic.
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2021-09-21 10:57:38
