Lockdown’s collateral cancer timebomb: 40 thousand tumours were ‘missed’ during first year of Covid pandemic, top experts fear this is just ‘the tip of the iceberg’

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Almost 40,000 cancers went undiagnosed during the first year of Covid, according to official statistics which lay bare the ‘true and catastrophic impact’ of the pandemic. Just 290,000 people in England were told they had cancer in 2020, down by roughly a tenth on one year earlier — the biggest drop logged since records began half a century ago. It was also the fewest annual diagnoses in a decade. It means 100 fewer Britons daily were told they had cancer, equating to one every 13 minutes — prompting fears of a cancer timebomb. Half of the missed tumours are thought …read more

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