Cancer screening tests, cancer diagnoses during COVID-19 pandemic

What The Study Did:
The number of patients undergoing cancer screening tests and of subsequent cancer diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in the largest health care system in the northeastern United States was assessed in this study.

Authors: 
Toni K. Choueiri, M.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Quoc-Dien Trinh, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, are the corresponding authors.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.7600)

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