Straight-to-test for the two-week-wait colorectal cancer pathway under the updated NICE guidelines reduces time to cancer diagnosis and treatment.

CONCLUSION: Our straight-to-test protocol has resulted in a reduction in times to cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment, despite an increase in the number of referrals. The new referral criteria have considerable resource implications, but their implementation did not result in an increase in the total number of cancers diagnosed.
PMID: 31042431 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England - April 30, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Christopher J, Flint TR, Ahmed H, Dhir N, Li R, Macfarland K, Ng D, Ng J, O'Neill C, Te Water Naudé A, Sloan K, Hall NR, Powar MP Tags: Ann R Coll Surg Engl Source Type: research