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New One-Stop Shops Offer Promise for Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis

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Early this year, the NHS rolled out new one-stop shops in several different areas of England, meant to offer diagnostic testing in a single location.

The centres are specifically designed to improve the waiting times for patients who are suspected to have cancer, even if their symptoms are vague at first. With the trial of these diagnosis centres within specific NHS hospitals, GPs now have the ability to refer patients so that a definitive diagnosis can be made within as little as one day.

While some patients will need to have further testing completed, early diagnosis is on the horizon for many individuals throughout the UK.

The diagnostic centres are only in trial stage currently, but they follow the path of some successful shops in nearby countries.

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