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Weight loss, fatigue and unexplained pain do not point to one organ, so patients bounce between specialists. A single clinic that investigates such symptoms quickly finds cancers that would otherwise be found late.
Site-specific urgent referral pathways miss patients with non-specific symptoms, who make up a large share of late-stage and emergency diagnoses. Denmark pioneered and England has scaled non-specific symptom pathways and rapid diagnostic centres, which investigate within days and detect cancer in a meaningful fraction of referrals, often in less common cancers. The proposal is to make such centres a standard component of cancer diagnostic systems.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, The hardest cancers are found late.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, The hardest cancers are found late.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, The hardest cancers are found late.