New data from Statistics Canada shows there were far fewer people diagnosed with cancer in the first year of the pandemic even though more than 140,000 new cases were reported to the Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) in that year. While this may sound like good news, the drastic drop in the detection rate between 2020…

Over the past few decades, our understanding of cancer has changed. We now know some cancers don’t grow or grow so slowly that they’ll never cause medical problems. But the way we label disease can harm. The use of more medicalised labels, including cancer, can increase levels of anxiety and the desire for more invasive…

Experts are concerned that the decline in cancer diagnosis in Victoria for the 2020 period is not indicative of a reduction in prevalence of disease, but rather of missed and delayed diagnosis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the world, cancer diagnosis has decreased in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cancer in Victoria…