The researchers examined screening rates for colorectal cancer and breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Richard Bold, MD, physician-in-charge at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, believes there will be at least 10,000 more deaths over the next decade because of delays in screenings and treatments.
“We’re now a year into it and that’s an unreasonable delay in screening,” said Dr. Bold.
Because of this study, UC Davis added its cancer patients to its next tier to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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