Advanced cancers return to prepandemic levels, according to a reassuring report
- According to a new report, cancer death rates continue to decline, and there were not huge shifts in late diagnoses.
- In 2020, a greater share of U.S. Cancers were caught at later stages, when they're harder to treat, but in 2021, these worrisome diagnoses returned to pre-pandemic levels for most types of cancer.
- The number of new cancer cases dropped in 2020, but then returned to pre-pandemic levels by 2021, with similar declines across states despite variations in COVID-19 policy restrictions.
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Advanced cancers back at prepandemic levels, despite delay in screenings
By CARLA K. JOHNSON Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans — for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. Related Articles Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Obamacare’s preventive care coverage mandate CDC advisory group considers narrowing COVID vaccine recommendations Spring allergies are back. Here’s h…
Advanced cancers return to prepandemic levels, according to a reassuring report
Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans — for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. Read more...
Pandemic has had no impact on late cancer screening - Canada French
In 2020, many Americans were forced to postpone their cancer screenings (coloscopy, mammograms and lung scintigraphs) by several months, with VOCID-19 submerging doctors and hospitals. However, this delay did not have a major impact on cancer statistics, at least not yet observable by the experts following these data. Cancer mortality rates continue to decline, and there is no major change in late diagnosis, according to a new report published o…
Advanced cancers returned to prepandemic levels, according to a reassuring report - The Morning Sun
Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans — for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. But that delay in screening isn't making a huge impact on cancer statistics, at least none that can be seen yet by experts who track the data. Cancer death rates continue to decline, and there weren't huge shifts in late diagnoses, according to a new report published Monda…
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