Public Health Scotland said the decrease was not in line with long-term trends and was likely to be due to under-diagnosis.
Patients were less likely to seek help and delays in investigations may have led to patients not being diagnosed in 2020 when they could have been, according to the report.Figures in the report show a 9% drop in the number of cancers diagnoses from 33,156 in 2019 to 30,395 cases in 2020. Peter Hastie from Macmillan Cancer Support said delays in diagnosing cancer can lead to people facing more serious treatments or to the disease being at a stage which can't be treated.
The Scottish government's public health minister Maree Todd said the NHS remained under sustained pressure as a result of Covid, with the number of people awaiting diagnostic tests now at the highest level since 2018. "The pandemic has clearly been a big factor here, but the SNP have been failing on cancer detection and treatment since way before Covid," she said.
Because Drs weren't, and still aren't seeing patients, diagnosis over the phone (if you can get through to them) may save a Bob or two short term, but it's a ticking time bomb for those that survive long enough to get a proper diagnosis, only to be told 'it's too late '
And No GP’s it’s over 2 years and we still Cannot see a GP face to face we cannot even get telephone consultations ring 01278783220 at 0830 and see where you are in the queue that’s every day plus the is a queue out the door to get medication it’s Awful.
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