THE number of people being diagnosed with bowel cancer dropped by 40 per cent during the coronvirus pandemic, a study has revealed. Experts also revealed that those diagnosed with the cancer betwee…
This compares to 517 cases that were diagnosed during the pandemic, which saw a 27 per cent drop in the number of colonoscopies being performed.
However, the experts also said that more patients were diagnosed as a result of coming forward with their symptoms - accounting for 81.2 per cent of diagnoses compared to 69 per cent in the year before the pandemic. There was an increase in patients displaying symptoms such as bowel perforation, abscesses, bowel obstruction and bleeding requiring hospital admission.
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