US cancer patients are facing longer waits for surgery - and the consequences are dire
- American cancer patients are facing longer surgery wait times today than over the past few decades - with dangerous consequences.
- Wait times have increased from weeks to over a month for six types of common cancer, a new study of more than 2.7 million patients found.
- Those cancers include breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, gastric and esophageal cancer, medical researchers said this week.
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- American cancer patients are facing longer surgery wait times today than over the past few decades - with dangerous consequences.
- Wait times have increased from weeks to over a month for six types of common cancer, a new study of more than 2.7 million patients found.
- Those cancers include breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, gastric and esophageal cancer, medical researchers said this week.
Sources: The Independent