Health
Cancer screening rates plummet during pandemic – Sydney Morning Herald
Cancer screening has fallen in Australia during the coronavirus pandemic, fuelling fears of a surge in delayed diagnoses and avoidable deaths.
There were more than 364,000 cervical cancer tests between January and June this year, compared to almost 807,000 for that period in 2019, a drop of 45 per cent.
Bowel screening also dropped rapidly, with about 145,000 fewer bowel screening tests completed between January and June. This year, about 680,000 were returned, compared to just under 825,000 for the first half of last year.
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