Bowel cancer annual report 2022 (NBOCA)
This report from the National Bowel Cancer Audit (NBOCA) covers an audit of the care received by people with bowel cancer in England and Wales diagnosed between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021, as well as those diagnosed between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020 who underwent a major resection after 31 March 2020.
28,523 patients were diagnosed with bowel cancer in England and Wales between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021. This report found that there was a substantial reduction in the number of patients diagnosed with bowel cancer during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic across all referral pathways, except for emergency presentations which remained constant. However, the number returned to normal around October 2020.
The report contains numerous key findings around a number of themes including: Quality improvement; care pathways during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic; peri-operative care; oncological management; and rectal cancer management. Examples include:
- There have been small improvements in 2-year all-cause mortality by different treatment groups eg for patients not having excision of their tumour, 2-year all-cause mortality reduced from 73% in 2016/17 to 70% in 2018/19
- 90-day post-operative mortality has increased marginally from 2.7% in 2019/20 to 3.1%
- Since 2016/17, the proportion of patients with rectal cancer that have a major resection has reduced from 54% to 47%.
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