The impact of the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer diagnoses: a population-based study in England

Cancer services were seriously disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using publicly available data for England, we show that breast cancer diagnoses decreased substantially in the first year of the pandemic, but have recovered to at least pre-pandemic levels. Long term follow-up is needed to asses...

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Autores principales: Gathani, Toral, Dodwell, David, Horgan, Kieran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9660015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36371502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-022-02054-4
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Sumario:Cancer services were seriously disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using publicly available data for England, we show that breast cancer diagnoses decreased substantially in the first year of the pandemic, but have recovered to at least pre-pandemic levels. Long term follow-up is needed to assess the impact on outcomes.

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