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‘Shattering’: Why Even a Month’s Cancer Delay Matters – Medscape
Professor Karol Sikora didn’t think a 4 week delay in cancer treatment would matter until he read ‘shattering’ results in a recent BMJ paper.
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Hello, my name is Professor Karol Sikora. I’m an oncologist here in London. And what I’d like to do today is look at a paper that appeared yesterday in The British Medical Journal, looking at mortality due to cancer treatment delays. It’s a meta-analysis. It’s done by a group in Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and King’s College London.
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