20 July 2020

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer deaths due to delays in diagnosis in England, UK

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer deaths due to delays in diagnosis in England, UK: a national, population-based, modelling study.
Lancet Oncol 2020, 20 July 2020; https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30388-0
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  • In this study the authors estimate the impact of delays in diagnosis on cancer survival outcomes in four major tumour types: breast cancer, colorectal cancer, oesophageal cancer, and lung cancer. For these four tumour types, these data correspond with 3291–3621 additional deaths across the scenarios within 5 years.