People avoiding hospitals or being unable to obtain healthcare due to lockdown prevented as many as 740,000 urgent cancer care referrals in the UK, it has been revealed.
Medics are warning of "The biggest cancer catastrophe ever to hit the NHS" after a report by the report by the National Audit Office found that from the start of the pandemic "Millions of people have avoided seeking, or been unable to obtain, healthcare."
In total, between 240,000 and 740,000 urgent referrals for suspected cancer cases were missed.
"There is a deadly cocktail of delays across the board, a regional lottery of cancer inequality and a growing cancer backlog. And it feels like the Government and NHS leaders have their heads in the sand," she said.
We previously highlighted the comments of Richard Sullivan, professor of cancer and global health and director of its Institute of Cancer Policy, who said that missed cancer treatments would claim more lives than COVID over the medium to long term.
"The number of deaths due to the disruption of cancer services is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the coronavirus itself over the next five years," said Sullivan.
"Cancer screening services have stopped, which means we will miss our chance to catch many cancers when they are treatable and curable, such as cervical, bowel and breast."
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