Europe may experience a cancer epidemic in the next decade. One of the reasons is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has delayed diagnosing people with the disease, resulting in a delay in starting treatment.
The alert was made in a publication by the Scientific Journal’s Oncology Committee scalpel🇧🇷 Scientists analyzed data from the disease and identified gaps that could allow advances in diagnosis in the next 10 years.
“We estimate that nearly a million cancer diagnoses went undiagnosed across Europe during the pandemic. We are in a race against time to find these missing cancers,” said Professor Mark Lawler. Queen’s Universityin the current situation.
More precisely, the report states that doctors reported a reduction of 1.5 million cancer patients in the first year of the epidemic, with one in two people not receiving surgery or chemotherapy in time.
said the lead author of the committee Lancet🇧🇷 “We are concerned that Europe is heading towards a cancer epidemic in the next decade.”
To reverse this scenario, and reach the goal of 70% survival for all cancer patients by 2035, they recommend measures such as increasing the study budget and focusing on the impact of the pandemic on the epidemiology of the disease.
