Key Takeaways
A cancer diagnosis is preceded by a visit to the emergency department in about a third of cases
Often the symptoms that drive a person to visit the ED are caused by the underlying cancer
It can be very 'distressing' to get your cancer diagnosis in a crowded emergency department, one researcher noted
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