Covid: 3,500 'missing' from cancer services in Wales

Covid: 3,500 'missing' from cancer services in Wales



About 3,500 people with cancer are "missing" from treatment services since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a cancer charity.

Macmillan said stronger messaging was needed to tell the public the NHS was open to get symptoms checked.

Another charity, Tenovus, said it had faced "push back" from ministers over a recovery plan for cancer services.

The Welsh Government says a "national meeting" will be held in the coming weeks to discuss them.

Cancer screening services were paused from the start of the pandemic until the end of June 2020 to ensure the safety of staff and patients and so
resources could be redeployed to tackle the virus.

The national cancer clinical director for Wales, Tom Crosby, said the number of suspected cancer patients fell by about 75% at the start of
the pandemic.

He said they have since picked up, but not returned to their previous level.

He told BBC Radio Wales's Eye on Wales programme: "I think it's fair to say there was some thousands of patients with a cancer diagnosis
that we would have expected to present last year and haven't."

Macmillan's calculations, based on how many people have been diagnosed during the pandemic compared to previous years, estimate around 3,500
people could have missed a cancer diagnosis between March and November 2020.

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