Above, cancer survival rates improve in 22 out of 26 cancer types.
In NHS Scotland, the declines from a pre-pandemic to a pandemic set of figures were in 4 cancers, including these three, selected for comparative purposes:
- Head & neck cancer: 1-year net survival fell 2.6% from 75.2 % to 72.6 %.
- Oesophageal cancer (women only): fell 3.9% from 46.6 % to 42.7 %.
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (men only): fell 3.9% from 68.0 % to 64.1 %.
The pattern shown in detailed Northern Ireland data, found these same cancers had one-year survival drops comparing the pre-pandemic and pandemic figures:
- Head & neck: 9% from 77.4% to 68.4%.
- Oesophageal: 11.2% from 53.5% to 42.3%.
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: 5.9% from 81.1% to 75.2%.
The NI data come from Impact of COVID-19 on cancer incidence, presentation, diagnosis, treatment and survival in Northern Ireland, published in the International Journal of Cancer (Impact Factor 7.4), in 2024:
Source: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/565659800/Impact_of_COVID-19.pdf
The contrast is stark. Northern Ireland suffered greater falls in survival rats across all 3 of these cancers, but more than three times more for head and neck cancer and nearly three times more for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Sorry all O/T.How times have changed I am old enough to remember how we were told that the oil would run out in a few years but now all I hear from these Yoon politicians we have years of oil and gas in the North Sea even now a tory is spouting we have years of oil what a bunch of hypocrites they are.and we are the ones who have suffered.
Rant over.
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And, of course the ‘Scottish’ Daily Depress headlines, ‘CANCER SURVIVAL RATES FALL’.
Every silver lining has a cloud attached as far as unionists are concerned, but they never mention the silver lining.
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