New diagnoses in Alberta of four types of cancer plunged in the spring of 2020, a Canadian Medical Association Journal study concludes
The question now is what impact those missed diagnoses will have on cancer survival rates in the future. The new Alberta study found that patients with three types of cancer – colorectal, uterine and non-Hodgkin lymphoma – diagnosed in 2020 had slightly lower one-year survival rates than patients diagnosed with the same diseases in 2018.
But when they compared mortality among patients diagnosed in that period to patients diagnosed in 2018 and 2019, theyno difference in one-year survival rates. When they adjusted for age, sex, prediagnosis health, cancer type and other variables, they discovered that patients diagnosed during the pandemic were slightly more likely to survive, unless they had melanoma.
But she and other cancer trackers agree it will take several more years – at least – to get a clear picture of how the pandemic affected cancer outcomes.
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