Doctors say delaying screenings could lead to a wave in cancer cases
and last updated 2021-03-01 20:21:02-05
ORANGE, Calif. â Cancer doctors are urging adults to stay on top of annual screenings. While clinics have been open for months, some patients have delayed life-saving screenings during the pandemic.
âThereâs no doubt thereâs concerns among cancer surgeons, all of us, that we may be missing cancers and people are going to have worse outcomes because of it, said Dr. Brian Norouzi, a urologist and robotic surgeon at St. Joseph s Hospital in Orange, California.
A recent report from The British Medical Journal found delaying treatment each month for certain cancers can raise the risk of death by around 10 percent. Researchers looked at bladder, breast, colon, rectum, lung, cervix, and head and neck cancers â that together represent 44 percent of all incident cancers globally.