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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Exactly as predicted on Lockdown Sceptics from the start – inflation, destruction of the economy, global economic unrest, depression, vaccine damage, increased mortality from other causes, longer hospital waiting lists, loss of trust in politicians and experts, loss of social cohesion, more censorship, ruined education, permanent embedding of covid rubbish, zero impact of all this on covid. It was all obvious, no great expertise or modelling required.
What more is there to say – this was obvious in March 2020 to anyone who was following the data.
Somebody I met sailing on a Thames barge in 2019 died from withdrawal of cancer care. I spent the Autumn/Winter of 2020 taking the neighbour who organised that trip for evaluation and treatment of cancer which seems to have worked. What struck me most during the hours of waiting in Kent hospital car parks was the almost total lack of any activity by the ambulances. That confirmed the fraud to me at least.
Fraud also confirmed in Exeter. A week before the first lockdown was announced, with panic in the air about this “deadly new virus”, my wife found her Father collapsed on the floor in his house. He had a number of long term illnesses. She spent 30 minutes on the phone pleading for an ambulance to take him to hospital. Their only concern was the safety of the crew if her Father had a temperature. The ambulance eventually turned up and my wife then had to convince the crew that they wouldn’t die by taking her Dad into the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital. She only managed this ‘selling’ job as she is an ex-nurse.
They arrived at Casualty, which was completely empty, and he was seen straight away by a Consultant!! Bit of a difference from the usual 2 hour wait to be triaged and then another 2 hours before treatment by a nurse practitioner.
Mind you, at least they were following the Hippocratic Oath of “First do no harm” to themselves. Selfish, unprincipled bar stewards.
It will be very interesting to see if the extra deaths do materialise. I hope the DS follows up on this.
I am.willing to go out on a limb and predict deaths will increase by considerably less than the 40,000 “missed” diagnoses. If so it will raise some interesting questions about our so called healthcare system (industry more like), which probably won’t be asked much less answered.
Some of the screening which results in a diagnosis is not worth doing because of unintended consequences from biopsies. Mammogram screening is one such area where the dose of x-ray outweighs the benefit of early detection to the woman. Some of the growths identified on mammogram are discrete entities which require no intervention other than monitoring by monthly breast checks & ditching diet & lifestyle which promote inflammation. When these growths are biopsied, the discrete nature of the growth is breached, thus enabling the spread of the cancer around the body.
This is advice received from a medic….
Can anyone shed any light on why cancer diagnoses have doubled in the last 50 years? Have cancer deaths doubled? Presumably, for every cancer death there’s a cancer diagnosis, are we simply saying that the diagnosis happens later, nearer the point of death or after death? It doesn’t seem to make much sense.
http://vaccinepapers.org/
And, even better for future auto immune diseases…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Most cancers happen later in life, so an ageing population would result in an increase in cancer diagnoses. A lot of cancers that can now be treated would’ve been a near certain death sentence 50 years ago, so a doubling in diagnoses doesn’t have to mean a doubling in deaths.
And there it is again, the assertion that people didn’t come forward because they were either worried about catching covid, or didn’t want to be a burden. NO. Health care was withdrawn, so unless you had covid it was virtually impossible to be seen. Surgeries were closed in many cases, or the aches, pains and lumps you suffered were diagnosed OVER THE PHONE by a disinterested doctor who had no intention of examining you. Sorry for the capitals, but this makes me so cross. People were turned away and ignored and they died of cancer because of it. Disgraceful and disgusting.