The COVID-19 pandemic and impact on breast cancer diagnoses: what happened in England in the first half of 2020

Gathani, Toral; Clayton, Gill; MacInnes, Emma; Horgan, Kieran

doi:10.1038/s41416-020-01182-z

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The COVID-19 pandemic and impact on breast cancer diagnoses: what happened in England in the first half of 2020

Published in British Journal of Cancer • Nov 30, 2020

Authors:

Toral Gathani

Gill Clayton

Emma MacInnes

Abstract

Delays in cancer diagnosis and treatment due to the COVID-19 pandemic is a widespread source of concern, but the scale of the challenge for different tumour sites is not known. Routinely collected NHS England Cancer Waiting Time data were analysed to compare activity for breast cancer in the first 6...

Subject

Medicine

Breast cancer

Pandemic

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