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Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study

BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 lockdown, referrals via the 2-week-wait urgent pathway for suspected cancer in England, UK, are reported to have decreased by up to 84%. We aimed to examine the impact of different scenarios of lockdown-accumulated backlog in cancer referrals on cancer survival, and t...

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Autores principales: Sud, Amit, Torr, Bethany, Jones, Michael E, Broggio, John, Scott, Stephen, Loveday, Chey, Garrett, Alice, Gronthoud, Firza, Nicol, David L, Jhanji, Shaman, Boyce, Stephen A, Williams, Matthew, Riboli, Elio, Muller, David C, Kipps, Emma, Larkin, James, Navani, Neal, Swanton, Charles, Lyratzopoulos, Georgios, McFerran, Ethna, Lawler, Mark, Houlston, Richard, Turnbull, Clare
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7116538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32702311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30392-2