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The NHS faces a cancer timebomb because an estimated 50,000 patients have missed out on a diagnosis during the pandemic, a study has revealed.
Macmillan Cancer Support warned that the health service is ill-equipped to deal with the backlog.
The charity’s analysis revealed 47,000 fewer people have been diagnosed with cancer in England over the past 18 months than would usually be expected.
And more than 24,000 who did begin treatment were made to wait too long after diagnosis.
Macmillan said the figures demonstrate that the NHS is already struggling to keep up with the current number of cancer cases. It said it is ‘deeply concerned’ about how services will cope when the ‘missing’ patients do come forward.
A study by Macmillan Cancer Support claims that around 50,000 patients have missed out on a diagnosis
