Nick Palmer
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:03:41 -0700
Jeff Fink wrote:-<<I read that in Great Britain 30% of the people with curable colon cancer are
dying from colon cancer, because, by the time the operation is scheduled it is no longer curable>>Where did you read this? It doesn't sound like the National health Service I know. It's possible that this means that 30% die because they are diagnosed too late but this doesn't mean that surgery is delayed once diagnosis is made. Here is a 2004 link to stuff they are doing to improve diagnosis.Links within it suggest that any trouble may be with GPs not referring people early enough for further investigation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3957531.stm