Every year, more than 170,000 [1] cancers are diagnosed in Poland - with many patients at an advanced stage. The problem is inadequate prevention, but also queues for oncology clinics and diagnostic tests. And it is imaging tests that are so important in detecting cancer and evaluating the effectiveness of oncological treatment.
New results posted on the Alivia Onkoskaner portal (formerly Kolejkoscope) show that the waiting time for MRIs has increased the most. On normal, patients are already waiting 75 days, 13 days longer than last year. For "cito" 56 days - 12 days longer than in May 2022.[2]
Patients also have to be patient while waiting in line for a PET-CT scan. With a referral on a regular basis, it's an average of 42 days (6 more than a year ago), and 28 days on an urgent basis (4 more than in May 2022).
- The long queues for PET CT examinations may be due, on the one hand, to a significant increase in the number of examinatio... To gain access to the complete English section of the Medexpress.pl, kindly reach out to us at [email protected].Content locked
