(Supplied by Cheryl-Anne Labrador-Summers)951,000 fewer cancer screenings in OntarioMore Canadians could experience late-stage cancer diagnoses in the years ahead, medical experts warn, forecasting a looming crisis tied to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. One review of Ontario's breast, lung, colon, and cervical cancer screening programs showed that in 2020 there were 41 per cent — or more than 951,000 — fewer screening tests conducted compared with the year before. WATCH | Late-stage cancer being diagnosed in Canadian ERs:ERs faced with late-stage cancer diagnoses amid pandemic Duration 2:11 Hospital emergency rooms are seeing a wave of patients being diagnosed with late-stage cancer after the COVID-19 pandemic forced many doctors’ offices to close or pivot to virtual appointments, leading to fewer cancer screenings. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)In some cases — like Labrador-Summers's situation — Canadians learned alarming news about their health in hospital emergency departments after struggling to receive in-patient care through other avenues. And we had lost my mom to cancer a few years back — to us, cancer was always terminal," she recalled.

Source: CBC News May 28, 2022 19:17 UTC