COVID-19 pandemic is having a ripple effect on other parts of the health-care system and an Alberta oncologist is worried an increasing number of cancer patients aren’t being diagnosed early enough — or at all.“Cancer hasn’t gone away.
It’s still a very serious health threat and we need to be able to diagnose and manage it, pandemic or not,” Dr. Douglas Stewart told Global News.
As COVID-19 crisis intensifies, Calgary man with cancer fears dying alone Prior to the pandemic, about 2,000 Albertans were diagnosed with cancer, and approximately 600 died from cancer, each month, according to numbers from Alberta Health Services.“Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, delays in cancer diagnosis and inadequate supports for patients and family.