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Cancer: UK lags behind Australia and Canada in number of cases diagnosed through emergency routes

Over a third (37%) of patients in England, Wales (37.4%), and Scotland (38.5%) had cancer diagnosed after being admitted to hospital through the emergency department, the study found. In Northern Ireland, which uses a different definition, emergency presentations accounted for over a quarter (27.9%) of diagnoses. The paper, published in the Lancet Oncology,1 also found that every 10% increase in emergency presentations was associated with a decrease in one year of survival with six of the eight cancer types studied, ranging from 2.5% with ovarian cancer to 7% with colon cancer.