The study, an analysis of Quest Diagnostics data published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, found that new diagnoses of breast, colorectal, lung, pancreatic, gastric and esophageal cancers were down 46% between March 1 and April 18 of this year compared with the average diagnosis rates from previous years.
New findings offer grim evidence of the consequences of delayed care: A rise in undetected cancers that, when eventually diagnosed, may be more advanced and difficult to treat.
"No one is saying coronavirus prevents cancer. It just prevents getting care in a timely fashion," said David S. Weinberg, a gastroenterologist and chair of Fox Chase Cancer Center's department of medicine, who was not involved in the study.
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Trump needs to know this, "Covid reduces cancer, China has been very unfair to COVID" is the new headline.
I know someone in their 80's who thought they had a "mouth abscess" and delayed going to the dentist for three months to have it looked at because they were deathly afraid of covid.
They finally went only when they couldn't eat anymore and was told cancer.
Had to do chemotherapy for 6 weeks just to get it small enough to operate on.
Gotta wonder if they went when they first noticed it instead of being afraid of covid, could they have skipped all that chemotherapy?
The fear of covid is doing more harm than covid.
My sister works for a major insurance company, suicides were through the roof last I talked to her a month ago during lock downs.
