The future of cancer care in the UK—time for a radical and sustainable National Cancer Plan

A Aggarwal, A Choudhury, N Fearnhead… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Cancer affects one in two people in the UK and the incidence is set to increase. The UK
National Health Service is facing major workforce deficits and cancer services have …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer patient pathways and outcomes in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland–a sco** review

L Lohfeld, M Sharma, D Bennett, A Gavin… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unplanned service disruption for breast cancer diagnostic,
treatment and support services. This sco** review describes these changes and their …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-free DNA–based multi-cancer early detection test in an asymptomatic screening population (NHS-Galleri): design of a pragmatic, prospective randomised …

RD Neal, P Johnson, CA Clarke, SA Hamilton, N Zhang… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary NHS-Galleri is a randomised controlled trial that will assess how well a
blood test can reduce the number of late-stage cancers by hel** to find cancers early. The …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-care use among patients with cancer in England, UK: a comprehensive phase-by-phase time-series analysis …

YY Tan, WH Chang, M Katsoulis, S Denaxas… - The Lancet Digital …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the widespread disruption of cancer health
provision services across the entirety of the cancer care pathway in the UK, from screening …

Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the diagnosis and treatment of men with prostate cancer

J Nossiter, M Morris, MG Parry, A Sujenthiran… - BJU …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To determine the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on diagnostic and treatment
activity in 2020 across hospital providers of prostate cancer (PCa) care in the English …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 pandemic: impact on cancer patients

M Rucinska, S Nawrocki - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, there were first reports of an atypical pneumonia detected in Wuhan city,
China. The infectious agent was soon identified as a novel enveloped beta-coronavirus. In …

The impact of the early COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare system resource use and costs in two provinces in Canada: an interrupted time series analysis

S Zeitouny, DC Cheung, KE Bremner, RE Pataky… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The aim of our study was to assess the initial impact of COVID-19 on total
publicly-funded direct healthcare costs and health services use in two Canadian provinces …

[HTML][HTML] Towards estimating the carbon footprint of external beam radiotherapy

R Chuter, C Stanford-Edwards, J Cummings, C Taylor… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (UK) is aiming
to be carbon net zero by 2040 to help limit the dangerous effects of climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Fewer head and neck cancer diagnoses and faster treatment initiation during COVID-19 in 2020: a nationwide population-based analysis

RC Schoonbeek, DVC de Jel, BAC van Dijk… - Radiotherapy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Inevitably, the emergence of COVID-19 has impacted non-COVID care.
Because timely diagnosis and treatment are essential, especially for patients with head and …

The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical radiography practice: a systematic literature review and recommendations for future services planning

TN Akudjedu, NA Mishio, W Elshami, MP Culp… - Radiography, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Worldwide, reports and experiences indicate that there has been extensive re-
organisation within diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy departments in response to the …