'We aren't diagnosing many cancers now'

Coronavirus doctor's diary: 'We aren't diagnosing many cancers now'

The surgeons are also dealing with fewer cancer patients.

"We certainly, at the moment, aren't diagnosing many cancers at all. Our main modality for diagnosing them is endoscopy - colon endoscopy [a camera inserted into the body on the end of a tube] - and we've more or less ceased that activity," she says.investigating people - we're scanning them, so we'll pick up the most advanced cancers - but we're not diagnosing anywhere near the normal numbers. So we are just putting this work off for later.

"What we may have been able to do six months ago, in a given day, we can only do half of that - and that's if we get all the theatres back, and all the ventilators back," Frankie says.Each patient at Bradford Royal Infirmary who leaves hospital after recovering from Covid-19 is commemorated with a heart

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