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One of the casualties of COVID-19 is routine screening for potential health problems, but a late diagnosis can mean more serious progression of cancers like lung, breast and prostate.
At the peak of the pandemic a year ago, screening across the country dropped to about 10% of what it had been and still hasn t recovered. If you don t look, you won t find, said Dr. Stephen Edge, vice president for system quality and outcomes at Roswell Park Comprehensive cancer Cancer and a breast cancer surgeon.
He said the cancer center was all-in from the beginning in making sure everyone was safe, when the virus hit and that often meant telling people to stay home to be safe, developing intense safety measures and the center s own COVID test. Edge said the concern now is that some patients aren t coming back to get the screening they need.
After a COVID-19 vaccination, a person s underarm lymph nodes may become swollen on the same side of the body where they had the injection. That s normal. In fact, it s a sign that the immune system is responding to the vaccine. However, the swelling may also show up on mammogram images.
Breast imaging experts aren t surprised when it does. We ve seen it before with other vaccines, such as the shingles vaccine (or) the flu vaccine, says Dr. Stamatia Destounis, a radiologist at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in Rochester.
She says swollen lymph nodes resulting from a vaccine typically shrink back to their normal size within a few weeks.