Almost 40,000 cancers went undiagnosed during the first year of Covid, according to official statistics which lay bare the catastrophic impact of the lockdowns, as experts fear this is just “the tip of the iceberg”. The Mail has the story.
Just 290,000 people in England were told they had cancer in 2020, down by roughly a tenth on one year earlier – the biggest drop logged since records began half a century ago. It was also the fewest annual diagnoses in a decade.
It means 100 fewer Britons daily were told they had cancer, equating to one every 13 minutes – prompting fears of a cancer timebomb. Half of the missed tumours are thought to be prostate and breast cancers.
The NHS prioritising Covid care, a lack of in-person appointments and the public avoiding the health service due to fear of catching the virus or adding to NHS pressures have all been blamed for the downturn.
Top experts today warned the figure is just the “tip of the iceberg” as the backlog in diagnosis is “still present and actually growing”, with tens of thousands facing “agonising” delays.
Continued Covid disruption means more Britons are living with missed and untreated serious cancers, which will cause cancer deaths to shoot up within years, doctors warned.
Today’s NHS Digital data shows there were 288,753 new cancer diagnoses in 2020, which is 38,421 fewer than in 2019.
The 2020 figure marks an 11.7% drop – the biggest logged by the NHS in its 50 years of cancer diagnoses data.
Until now, the largest annual decline was 7.1% in 1990.
New diagnoses had been trending upwards, with 2% more cancers spotted each year, on average, in the five years before the pandemic.
But the latest data shows that the average number of new diagnoses each day fell from 896 in 2019 to 789 in 2020 – 107 fewer.
Rather than the prevalence of cancer declining in the population, more cancers were missed in 2020 as the country was plunged into an endless cycle of on/off lockdowns.
Cancer care effectively ground to a halt for some patients when the pandemic first reached the U.K.’s shores, with appointments cancelled and diagnostic scans delayed because of the Government’s devotion to protecting the NHS.
So far cancer deaths are only running slightly above average, but presumably there is worse to come down the line after so many missed diagnoses in the past 30 months.
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So if you don’t like the mRNA vaccines you have “general vaccine scepticism”? What kind of sceptics website is this? mRNA treatments have nothing to do with any vaccines I’ve had. They are a form of gene therapy.
This is what comes of just quoting an MSM article verbatim, rather than doing any sceptical journalism.
The European hesitancy and precautionary principle means that their countries will be in totalitarian lockdown for years to come. It will never be safe enough to do anything for a great many people. Somebody might catch a bad cold.
Let’s hope Britain doesn’t follow them down that path. The problem with the success of flu vaccinations is that very few younger people have ever had the full fortnight of flu or anything else really serious and have no idea how bad it feels – or how it feels to recover from such an illness.
Which makes Covid, at two or three times as bad as a nasty flu, very scary indeed, particularly when people are filming themselves looking like they are at death’s door on day 10 – just before they start to get better.
“Covid, at two or three times as bad as a nasty flu,”
That’s true of the fatality overall, but for most people under 65, flu is two or three times as bad as Covid, given the differences in the shapes of the fatality curves. The risk of death from Covid if you are under 65 is something like 5 in 10,000.
As for the precautionary principle being adopted by some of the European nations’ drug regulators – I’d like to see a bit more of that here. Seems to me they are doing the job the UK MHRA should be doing – protecting their public against hastily introduced pharmaceutical products which are starting to exhibit alarming symptoms of causing injuries and deaths in young, healthy people.
Of course it would be nice to see them investigating the Pfizer vaccine as rigourously as the AZ one, but I am sure that time will come.
A bit surprised that this document is not highlighted.You have to be very careful just quoting MSM and indeed any verbal communication from EMA as circulated.If you check this written report it is now a safety signal,The whole discussion is about a specific syndrome now very suspect,which has also got a namne VIPIT(Vaccine induced protrombin immune thrombocytopenia).As the article says nothig to do with common thrombosis now peddling around by MSM.How common is this? Nobody knows but in Norway 1 in 15000 vaccine doses had this syndrome and died.Norway will decide today but please report on ATL also on published document that this is not a wild scare from antivaxxer but being “upgraded” even by EMA as a safety signal.
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-update-ongoing-evaluation-blood-clot-casesCOVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca – Update on ongoing evaluation of blood clot cases
“The review of thromboembolic events with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is being carried out in the context of as afety signal under an accelerated timetable. A safety signal is information on a new or incompletely documented adverse event that is potentially caused by a medicine such as a vaccine and that warrants further investigation.”