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Cancer deaths spike as Scotland's biggest killer strikes hard amid NHS virus focus

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Covid-19 deaths and their location but also looks at how many excess deaths have occurred overall. Excess deaths are those recorded over and above the five-year average for that week.

Scottish Labour has called for a plan to be put in place to help prevent a potential "tsunami of cancer deaths" after it was revealed almost 400,000 cancer screenings were cancelled due to coronavirus.

Since the 12th week of this year, around the time lockdown was imposed, 950 more people have died at home with cancer than the five-year average.Between the 12th week of year and the 29th, 2,639 people died at home with cancer, the highest of any setting, compared to the average of 1,689 over the past five years.Smear tests to check for cervical cancer only.

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