Covid-19 Outbreaks Led to Dangerous Delay in Cancer Diagnoses - The Wall Street Journal

Cancer-care provider 21st Century Oncology, which has 300 locations around the U.S., said about 18% of its newly diagnosed breast-cancer patients this year through August had an advanced stage of the disease, compared with 12% in all of 2019.

The provider has also seen a higher proportion of its lung-cancer patients arriving with a more advanced stage of the disease this year.

“It’s distressing as a physician,” said Constantine Mantz, chief policy officer for 21st Century Oncology, which is a unit of Australian company GenesisCare.