New figures show more patients are diagnosed with cancer during a trip to A&E in the UK than in other comparable countries.
People who end up in A&E are less likely to survive the disease, particularly if they have stomach, bowel, liver, pancreatic, lung or ovarian cancer. Cancer data often has a time lag, but Cancer Research UK said it feared the outlook is now even worse following the Covid-19 pandemic.
As part of a new study, experts from University College London looked at eight major cancers and found more than a third of patients in England (37%), Wales (37%) and Scotland (39%) were diagnosed after being rushed into hospital. From 857,068 cancer patients in all the country regions, the percentage of diagnoses through emergency presentation ranged from 24% to 43%.
