Up to 20,000 diagnoses of prostate cancer could have been missed during the pandemic, research suggests.
The study by the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford said there was 'unprecedented disruption' in the diagnosis of cancer with a drop in urgent referrals from GPs, caused by difficulties accessing care and longer waiting times. Analysis of 24million patient records since 2020 found tens of thousands of men have missed potentially life-saving cancer diagnoses
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