Breast Cancer Awareness month is here. Here are a few resources you can look to if you or a loved one is experiencing symptoms or needs to find screening.
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.
Posted at 5:19 PM, Feb 22, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-22 17:48:18-05
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â There is new guidance out for men and women who may be getting screening mammograms after studies have found inflammation of lymph nodes due to the COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Stephen Edge is a professor of surgery at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine as well as a breast surgeon and professor of Oncology at Roswell Park.
He spoke to 7 Eyewitness News about the significance of the new findings and said this is not uncommon with any vaccine.
âThereâs inflammation that can be associated with the lymph nodes in the area that youâve had the vaccine or any other inflammation can become enlarged. Thatâs partly how they work.â