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. 2024 Jan;43(1):125-130.
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00767.

US Cancer Detection Decreased Nearly 9 Percent During The First Year Of The COVID-19 Pandemic

Uriel Kim  1 , Siran Koroukian  2 , Johnie Rose  3 , Richard S Hoehn  4 , Bryan T Carroll  5
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US Cancer Detection Decreased Nearly 9 Percent During The First Year Of The COVID-19 Pandemic

Uriel Kim et al. Health Aff (Millwood). 2024 Jan.

Abstract

We investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer detection, using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, which recently released data through the first year of the pandemic (2020). Across all cancer sites, cancer incidence fell by 8.7 percent. The most common cancers that experienced the largest disruptions were lung and bronchus, melanoma of the skin, and thyroid cancer.

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