Almost 25 per cent of all the cancer cases are detected when the time is too late. This happens during the emergency treatment of patients when they are admitted to hospitals, showed a research done by National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN).

Most of these cases are fatal as detection of cancer in timely manner is of utmost importance as it can be fully treated of detected during the first stage.

But, the survey has a different story to tell. As per it, NCIN analysis has shown that in between 2007 and present close to 23 per cent of the newly diagnosed patients entered the hospitals on an emergency basis and that they could not get the disease detected in the first place.

It also showed that survival rates in most of these cases were poor as they came when the situation was critical. While talking to the Daily Telegraph, Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive said that difference between diagnoses and emergency presentations is 'very high' and that itself explains why the death rates in cancer is still very high.