Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Br J Cancer. 2021 Mar;124(7):1181-1182. doi: 10.1038/s41416-021-01276-2. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
Early diagnosis of cancer, followed by timely and appropriate therapy, are the cornerstones of the secondary prevention of cancer, thus the NHS has set a 2028 target to achieve 75% early stage (TNM I/II) at cancer diagnosis. In this context, Barclay et al. evaluated overall, sex, age and deprivation-group-specific progress towards this target based on 202,000 cancer patients diagnosis in 2015. Herein, we discuss their findings which form a valuable pre-COVID-19 pandemic status. We discuss the impact of the pandemic and the efforts being made in innovative early detection and diagnosis research.
癌症的早期诊断,以及随之而来的及时和适当的治疗,是癌症二级预防的基石,因此国民保健制度设定了一个 2028 年的目标,即在癌症诊断时达到 75%的早期阶段(TNM I/II)。在这种情况下,Barclay 等人根据 2015 年 202000 例癌症患者的诊断,评估了总体、性别、年龄和贫困群体特定方面在实现这一目标方面的进展。在这里,我们讨论了他们的研究结果,这些结果构成了 COVID-19 大流行前的宝贵现状。我们讨论了大流行的影响,以及在创新的早期检测和诊断研究方面所做的努力。