55,000 cancer cases went undiagnosed during Covid-19 pandemic across 7 nations

Approximately 55,000 cancer cases went undiagnosed across seven countries, with pandemic-related US disruptions associated with roughly 17,390 excess cancer deaths within a year of diagnosis during 2020-2021.

In the first months of a global emergency, the quiet machinery of cancer detection fell silent across seven wealthy nations, leaving roughly 55,000 people without diagnoses they were owed. A major international study published in The Lancet Oncology has now measured that silence with precision — a 16 percent drop in cancer diagnoses between April and December 2020 across Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, and Britain. The finding is both a reckoning with how fragile routine medical care can be and a reminder that the systems which kept screening alive during the crisis w

55,000 cancer cases went undiagnosed during Covid-19 pandemic across 7 nations

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