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
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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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spelling pubmed-96600152022-11-14 The impact of the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer diagnoses: a population-based study in England Gathani, Toral Dodwell, David Horgan, Kieran Br J Cancer Comment 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-11-12 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9660015/ /pubmed/36371502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-022-02054-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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