Monday, December 13, 2021
EU report on the pandemic
Up to a million cancer cases undetected
Surgery and medical treatment will have to be postponed during the pandemic. According to a report, the EU Commission and the OECD are also assuming a massively disrupted system of early detection.
Due to the corona pandemic, there is a risk of massive setbacks in the fight against cancer in the European Union, according to a new EU report. According to estimates, up to a million cases of cancer have gone undetected in Europe because of the corona-related disorders of the health system, according to the joint report by the EU Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which the Commission plans to present on Monday and which was available in advance to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Cancer treatment is a critical area of medical care disrupted by Covid-19. Access to cancer diagnosis and treatment was delayed, especially during the height of the pandemic – it is to be expected that these delays would have a negative impact on the prognosis and survival of affected patients.
As a current report accompanying previous studies, the report on the state of health in the EU focuses primarily on the corona crisis. He warns that the death toll from Corona is likely to be higher in the EU than previously assumed. According to the report, almost 800,000 people in the EU had died prematurely due to Corona by the end of October, according to official census. However, the comparison of the official number of corona deaths and the excess mortality in the long-term average of deaths suggests that the corona deaths are likely to be underestimated – the excess mortality in the first two pandemic waves was almost twice as high as the official number of the corona -Kill.
According to the Funke Newspapers, the report gives the German health system a comparatively good report on dealing with Corona: “Germany reacted quickly to the Covid 19 pandemic and was relatively well prepared in terms of health infrastructure and resources,” says it. However, the report also notes that the Corona crisis in Germany highlighted the challenges that federal systems are faced with in coordinating and managing the pandemic.