Two thirds of NHS hospitals in England don’t accurately record the number of patients who receive a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, despite the fact that trusts were told to collect the data as far back as 2012. In December 2012 the then National Cancer Intelligence Network, now merged into Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service, wrote to hospital trusts requiring them to “ensure that data are collected on breast cancer recurrences and metastases at the time of patient contact.”1 “The policy was unfortunately introduced with no support plan in place to help hospitals implement the change,” said Gunes Kalkan, head of policy at the UK breast cancer charity Breast Cancer Care, at the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC4) International …

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英国转移性乳腺癌患者的数量未知

英格兰三分之二的NHS医院无法准确记录诊断为转移性乳腺癌的患者人数，尽管事实是早在2012年就告知信托机构收集了该数据。2012年12月，当时的美国国家癌症情报局（National Cancer Intelligence）网络现已合并为英国公共卫生的国家癌症登记和分析服务部门，该信致医院信托基金，要求他们“确保在与患者接触时收集有关乳腺癌复发和转移的数据。” 1目前还没有任何支持计划来帮助医院实施这一变革。”高级乳腺癌组织（ABC4）的英国乳腺癌慈善机构“乳腺癌护理”的政策负责人Gunes Kalkan表示...