She didn't catch COVID-19. But, by trying to stay safe, her cancer may have gone undetected.
The COVID-19 pandemic is keeping some people away from their doctors, some missing key diagnosis.
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PHOENIX â Victims of the pandemic did not all catch COVID-19 and, now, a scenario doctors were concerned might happen, has. And it has devastated an Arizona daughter and her family.
Tracy Bremmeyer told ABC15 her mother, Pauline Babineau, 61, died last week in Washington from Stage IV lung cancer, a mere three months after losing function in her hand and being diagnosed.
"She thought it was just more of a muscle injury," Bremmeyer said. "It progressed so fast in the days before that by the time she went to the hospital, she had to be carried in because she couldn't walk."