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High-risk GI cancers were diagnosed substantially less during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in 3000 fewer diagnoses.

Study findings suggest stay-at-home orders delayed cancer diagnoses

Study findings suggest stay-at-home orders delayed cancer diagnoses

During the first year of the COVID pandemic, as people were stuck at home and were less likely to visit their primary doctors for preventative care, a study found that new cancer diagnoses were 14.4% lower than in past years, a study has found. Published in JAMA Network, the study was led by Loma Linda

Amid stay-at-home orders early in the pandemic, some 200,000 people who had cancer did not receive diagnoses or treatment when the pandemic began in 2020, researchers found.