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‘This is big’: Experts concerned that COVID-19 fears could lead to tsunami of cancer cases globalnewsdigital © Global News Diane Van Keulen is living with stage 4 lung cancer. During the pandemic, she refused to go to hospital for cancer care because she feared getting sick with COVID-19. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Canada, but during the pandemic physicians and health-care providers have noticed a steep decline in new diagnoses. “You wonder where some of these cancers are. Some of them are missing in action,” said Dr. Antoine Eskander, a surgical oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

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