The impact of the temporary suspension of national cancer screening programmes due to the COVID-19 epidemic on the diagnosis of breast and colorectal cancer in the Netherlands

The impact of the temporary suspension of national cancer screening programmes due to the COVID-19 epidemic on the diagnosis of breast and colorectal cancer in the Netherlands

Abstract Oncological care was largely derailed due to the reprioritisation of health care services to handle the initial surge of COVID-19 patients adequately. Cancer screening programmes were no exception in this reprioritisation. They were temporarily halted in the Netherlands (1) to alleviate the...

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Main Authors: Avinash G. Dinmohamed, Matteo Cellamare, Otto Visser, Linda de Munck, Marloes A. G. Elferink, Pieter J. Westenend, Jelle Wesseling, Mireille J. M. Broeders, Ernst J. Kuipers, Matthias A. W. Merkx, Iris D. Nagtegaal, Sabine Siesling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:Journal of Hematology & Oncology
Subjects:
COVID-19
Cancer
Incidence
Epidemiology
Registry
Population-based
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13045-020-00984-1

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