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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Cancer diagnoses in London dropped 14% during Covid pandemic

A patient is prepared for a CT scan (File picture)

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The number of cancer diagnoses in London dropped by 14 per cent during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Standard can reveal.

Analysis of figures published by NHS Digital showed that a total of 32,284 people in the capital were diagnosed with the disease in 2020 – a fall of over 5,400 on the year before.

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