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Cancer screenings dropped early in pandemic | CIDRAP – CIDRAP
Screenings dropped 63% to 82% during the first pandemic wave but had a higher rate of cancer detection.
In the Massachusetts General Brigham healthcare system alone, about 1,438 cancerous and precancerous lesions may have gone undiagnosed from March to June 2020 because of pandemic-related disruptions in screenings, reports a JAMA Oncology research letter today.
Fortunately, the data also indicated that in the subsequent 3 months, screening quantities were trending toward normal in the healthcare system, which is the largest in the Northeast.
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