Letters: The big issue: cancer diagnoses GPs must be vigilant despite the difficulties - The Observer 20th April 2008

While I am concerned about late diagnosis of cancer, my comments in your front-page story - 'GPs warned over failure to diagnose cancers' (News, last week) - never amounted to a 'warning' to GPs, nor did I talk about 'botched' diagnosis. Instead, I emphasised how difficult it is for GPs to distinguish between the eight or so new cases of cancer they see each year and the hundreds of patients with symptoms that overlap those of cancer. I also stressed that GPs get it right in the vast majority of cases.

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