Statistics Canada says there was a notable decline in new cancer diagnoses in 2020, possibly due to pandemic-related disruptions in screening services.
The incidence rate of new cancer cases dropped by 12.3 per cent in 2020, compared with the average annual rate over the previous five-year period.show there were 450 new cases per 100,000 people and that overall, cancer diagnoses among males fell by 13.2 per cent. That was more of a decrease than for females, who saw an 11.4 per cent drop in new cases during the first year of the pandemic.
StatCan said the incidence rates of the four most commonly diagnosed cancer types — breast, lung and bronchus, prostate and colorectal cancers — all appear significantly lower in 2020 than the 2015 to 2019 average rate but the incidence rates for both throat and anal cancers increased. "There was so much collateral damage," she said of patients fearing they would catch COVID-19 if they sought treatment in a hospital even after taking preventive measures.Some parents did not bring their children to hospital because they interpreted any symptom as COVID-19, said Singh, who is also director of McMaster University's Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research.
He said the two-year partnership with the clinics, starting next week, is necessary because nearly 83 per cent of B.C. patients currently start radiation within four weeks, the national benchmark for the maximum recommended amount of time considered appropriate to wait, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information .
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