Cancer screening 3 years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

JAMA

2025-03-05

(Press-News.org) About The Study: In 2023, reported breast and colorectal cancer screening rebounded from COVID-19 pandemic–related declines and surpassed pre-pandemic estimates. These findings are encouraging given larger-than-expected declines in early-stage breast and colorectal cancer diagnoses in 2020 and increases in distant-stage breast cancer diagnoses through 2021. Cervical cancer screening rates remained below pre-pandemic levels, a troubling trend as early-stage diagnoses continued to decrease in 2021. The persistent decline may in part reflect longer-term declines in patient knowledge and clinician recommendation of cervical cancer screening.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Jessica Star, MA, MPH, email Jessica.star@cancer.org.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2025.0902)

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