
Cancer screenings and diagnoses lag post-COVID, causing potential delays to treatment
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Cancer screenings are still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels. The interruption may likely cause a delay in disease diagnoses and proper treatment.
Diagnoses of breast, cervical and colorectal cancers dropped by roughly 6% to 7% between 2019 and 2020 and by an additional 5% to 6% between 2020 and 2021, the researchers also found.
The decrease in diagnoses "does not mean these cancers are suddenly less common," said study leader Allison Oakes of data analytics company Trilliant Health in Brentwood, Tennessee. "Rather, it means there are people with cancer who are going to be diagnosed at a later, more severe stage of the disease."
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