launched an appeal to raise money for Cancer Research UK in her name. More than £16,000 has already been raised. Urgent referrals for cancer care have dropped and treatments have been delayed or cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.There is also a major backlog for screenings resulting in delayed diagnoses, the programme reveals.Mark Lawler, Professor of Digital Health at Queen's University Belfast, and Scientific Lead of DATA-CAN, the UK's health data research hub for cancer, said: "Initial data that we got was very worrying to us.
Anecdotally, people have been telling us there were problems, but I think the critical thing was being able to actually have routine data from hospital trusts."We felt that, worst case scenario there would.