Breast cancer care is “falling short” for black patients and people with learning disabilities, a study has found.<\/p>\n
The research, led by the University of Surrey, discovered that these two groups face longer waiting times at “key stages” of their care.<\/p>\n
“Our study shows that the country currently has a system that is letting down the patients who already face the most barriers,” said associate professor Dr Robert Kerrison. <\/p>\n
The study – which looked at more than 86,000 patients’ medical records – found black patients had 29 per cent lower odds of being diagnosed through routine breast screening.<\/p>\n
They also had a 37 per cent higher chance of being diagnosed after turning up at an A&E department or as an emergency. <\/p>\n
Cancers found in emergencies tend to be at a later stage, which lowers the chance of survival, according to the university. <\/p>\n
Patients with a learning disability waited 18 per cent longer, on average, for a breast cancer diagnosis after presenting to their GP with a symptom. <\/p>\n
One in four waited 29 days or more for a diagnosis, 10 days longer than the general population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breast cancer care is “falling short” for black patients and people with learning disabilities, a study has found.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}