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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Stobbe

Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests

Pandemic Cancer Deaths - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right.

The federally funded study published Thursday by the medical journal JAMA Oncology is being called the first to assess the effects of pandemic-related disruptions on the short-term survival of cancer patients.

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