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Cancer crisis ‘replacing Covid emergency’ as 300,000 miss urgent checks

Experts warn that many were never referred by their GP or kept away for fear of adding to virus pressures facing NHS

17 September 2021 · 10:35 UTC

England is at risk of "replacing the Covid crisis with a cancer crisis", with more than 300,000 people missing urgent checks since the start of the pandemic, experts have warned.