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  TORONTO -- Many cancer patients have been stuck waiting for life-saving surgeries, according to a new study using Ontario data, confirming worries about the impact of the enormous and growing backlog of procedures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. And it’s not just cancer patients. Doctors are warning that the health care system has yet to return to pre-pandemic surgical rates, let alone clearing the backlog, with over a quarter of a million people in Ontario alone on standby for life saving operations. The study, published in JAMA, showed a dramatic 60 per cent drop in cancer surg...

  MONTREAL -- While the prospect of mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increase in cancer mortality rates. The pandemic caused a "dramatic" drop in cancer screenings such as mammograms and colonoscopies, leading to fewer diagnoses, according to Dr. Gerald Batist, the head of the Segal Cancer Centre at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital. "It just looks like less people were diagnosed, and they were, but there weren't fewer people with that diagnosis," Batist said in a phon...

The pandemic caused a “dramatic” drop in screenings such as mammograms and colonoscopies, leading to fewer diagnoses. Morgan Lowrie, Canadian Press wutwhanfoto via Getty Images MONTREAL — While the prospect of mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increase in cancer mortality rates. The pandemic caused a “dramatic” drop in cancer screenings such as mammograms and colonoscopies, leading to fewer diagnoses, according to Dr. Gerald Batist, the head of the Segal Cancer Cen...

Morgan Lowrie Diane Van Keulen, shown in a handout photo, a lung cancer patient from Ontario, has been battling the disease since 2019. She says she delayed her potential recovery and treatment out of fear of COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS HO-Diane Van Keulen Mandatory Credit February 06, 2021 - 6:11 PM MONTREAL - While the prospectof mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increase in cancer mortality rates. The pandemic caused a "dramatic" drop in cancer...