Cancer in the Covid world: Public health experts' worst fears are coming true

The pandemic-induced shutdown of many health-care facilities led to the cancellation or postponement of thousands of mammograms, colonoscopies and other screenings. It’s been a year since those screenings resumed, but the fears of public-health experts are coming true with an increase in cancer diagnoses. Federal epidemiologists with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) expect the temporary shutdowns to impact cancer rates and severity for at least the next decade, with modeling scenarios projecting…
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