New analysis by Breast Cancer Now suggests that close to 12,000 women in the U.K. were living with undiagnosed breast cancer at the end of May, following more than a year of lockdowns – and, to make matters worse, screening for the disease is still below pre-lockdown levels. The Times has the story.
The charity Breast Cancer Now said that since screening resumed in the summer of last year about half a million fewer women had been seen than in the same months of 2018 and 2019.
Separate research from the University of Exeter warned that six out of ten patients showing common “alarm” symptoms for cancer were not referred on for urgent investigation.
In September last year Breast Cancer Now warned that a million women had missed out on breast cancer screening because of the pandemic.
Any woman registered with a GP is invited for NHS breast screening every three years between the ages of 50 and 71, although services were paused last year to create capacity in the health service for coronavirus treatment and to reduce the spread of infection. They have restarted but are still subject to infection control measures that often mean that not as many patients can be seen during each session.
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, Chief Executive of Breast Cancer Now, said: “Unfortunately, despite our hardworking NHS staff, screening services running at reduced capacity means that now 1.5 million fewer women have been screened: a staggering 50% increase since services restarted.
“Women with breast cancer are continuing to pay the price due to the impact of the pandemic and in the worst cases delayed diagnoses could mean that some women die of this devastating disease.” Based on NHS referral, treatment and screening data, the charity estimated that as of May this year 10,162 people in England, 1,067 in Scotland, 620 in Wales and 30 in Northern Ireland could be living with undiagnosed breast cancer.
The charity, along with the Royal College of Radiologists, is calling for more funding and a long-term strategy to ensure that NHS imaging and diagnostic services have enough staff to see and treat patients promptly.
NHS England has said that it would spend £50 million on breast screening to meet national standards and recover backlogs by March next year.
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Baroness Morgan……
…….just let that sink in – almost as risible as Baroness Bennett – the former Green leader who gives new meaning to the word ‘mediocre’.
If in the last 20yrs we have not been presented with sufficient evidence to abolish the House of Lords, and say nothing and keep voting the same way – then I think we deserve everything that comes our way.
The left wing Establishment it only interested in women when it suits the agenda
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Abolishing the House of Lords is irrelevant in this context. Go and stand on a different orange box for that and concentrate on this Breast Screening
matter.
“My name is Boris Johnson, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.
He has done this with his followers through his policies and his behaviours, he will as he is doing try to blame business, employers, ordinary people. It his work and his work alone that has done this
There is a bit of a confusion here – between routine screening and the follow-up of individuals with symptoms.
It is an important distinction. Routine screening suffers from the same problems as the PCR testing of an asymptomatic population – false positives etc.
The situation is often examined as a case study in texts covering statistical fallacies.
Well yes sort of. The difference is that 1 in 7 women will still get breast cancer in the UK! Even if a mammogram is “positive” then these results are still confirmed for definite with a biopsy or MRI. So yes it increases anxiety for the women who are waiting but they still get a proper diagnosis and treatment (well unless chemo is halted for covvie). Unlike cov screening it’s also optional, plus you get all these scenarios and the likelihoods in advance so you can give proper informed consent!
PCR tests are all kinds of bollocks because we have no idea what the incidence of covid is, what the false positive and negative rates are, the ct count significance, whether it’s just picking up fragments of dead virus or reacting to other viruses etc. And if you have symptoms they don’t test for the other 200 viruses it might also be. Even if there was zero covid you’d still get some positives.
I tore up the screening form when I saw masks were mandatory.
Right on. I had to argue and fight to get into a hospital so they could look at my daughter’s arm, but they caved in eventually!
Your fault, not the system if you get breast cancer then. Sacrifice your principles, not your health.
Project Veritas interview what they claim are 3 Pfizer scientists. They don’t tell us anything we don’t already know but it’s nonetheless interesting to have it confirmed.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/project-veritas-quot-pfizer-quot_Tzk7jJbghHdgVlw.html
Savage Jabby will probably just say “well these women obviously *couldn’t be bothered* to get checked up”
If they don’t like cancer, they can just get another disease.
When is it going to sink in that the effects of the govt lockdown and refusal of the WahNHS to perform proper medicine means the UKs medical services are an order of magnitude worse than any other 1st world country, despite the billions shovelled into the ever more demanding ” stretched NHS”
It is the very structure of the NHS that condemns Britons to 2nd world healthcare in perpetuity.
Why will no one ask why Brits are not allowed the level of healthcare available to Germans, Austrians, Swiss Dutch etc etc.
It is no good comparing the UK NHS with any other country. Comparisons throw up very strange anomalies. The NHS is staffed with tens of thousands of nurses who are not performing nursing tasks at all. My daughter is a Nursing Sister but is actually a pen pusher, not even being able to help out during covid because she had not conducted any nursing duties in ten years. She is still listed as a nurse. I used to be a soldier, but I am not classed as a soldier still. Too many nurses are specifically trained and cannot be used in any other nursing discipline. There are still general nursing staff, but not like in the days of SRNs and SENs. Any nurse in those days could be used just about anywhere.
“if it saves just one life”
I heard, today, of a church elder whose wife has gone from “well” to intensive care, with breast cancer, in the course of a few weeks. Something is rotten in the NHS.
It isn’t just women that this is affecting. I have had an experience over the weekend which suggests that GP’s, as soon as they hear the word cough, want nothing to do with you.
I developed a chest infection over the last week, which was affecting my breathing. I finally plucked up the courage on Friday to call for a GP’s appointment, and was told to present at the surgery at 1600, where I was kept waiting intil 1700.
A routine exam,blood oxygen, blood pressure, checked my chest and she started asking me questions. As soon as I mentioned that I had a cough, and was bringing up a lot off rubbish of my chest, instead off asking further, or looking to see, I was told to go and have a covid test. She wouldnt prescribe me anythihg for the symptoms I was describing, presumably because a cough equals covid and you become a statistic.
My health detriorated massively over the weekend, with massive side affects of severe dehyration, loss of bladder control, panic attacks, and I finally got to talk to the same GP yesterday afternoon. She was still not willing to prescribe antibitics, refusing to accept me description. Instead, she arranged for an appointment with a colleague, who did one of the most comprehensive exams I have ever had including asking second opionions of the hospital about the possibility of a Urinery Tract Infection. it took over 40 minutes. The question again came up of the cough, and I got the same you need to do a covid test, but this time I was armed with a sample of the crap I had been coughing up. It was enough to prescribe me antibiotics that I should have been prescribed last Friday instead of letting a massive infection invade my body for four days and cause massive side effects.
So if you go to the doctors and have cough, which you KNOW is not covid related, go prepared to push back with evidence, because your GP is not likely to accept your word for it.
Covid is more important than cancer. It’s also more important than heart disease, diabetes, stroke, dementure…
Correction. Covid is easier to make lots of money out of compared with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and dementia.
Propaganda fed muppet. It is not. Or are you being sarcastic?
He’s being sarcastic.
My wife is a Breast Screening Clinal Director, Consultant Radiologist at a Major Regional Hospital in England. In spite of the pause in screening at the beginning of the Pandemic 2020, When she returned to work, she got on with the job and caught up with her lists, and she has continued and been praised for her success. So, not all is doom and gloom. It is a case of the GPs doing their job and refering their symptomatic patients by seeing them and not doing telephone or video triage, the government and media stopping frightening women who need screening from attending their appointments, and Breast Screening staff pulling their finger out and getting on with doing the job. And don’t use Covid as an excuse in England because vaccinated staff no longer have to isolate if in contact with an alleged positive case. The Government and Hancock have a lot to answer for.
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