Cancer diagnoses down due to pandemic effect
Cases were almost 4000 lower than expected by the end of 2021, a Victorian report reveals.
Fewer Victorians were diagnosed with cancer in the past year owing to the COVID-19 pandemic impact on screening, a report shows.
The latest Cancer in Victoria report, released on Thursday, found a 4.3% decline in 2021 or 1485 fewer cases.
It follows on from a 7% decline in cancer diagnoses, or about 2420 fewer cases, in 2020.
Victorian Cancer Registry Director Professor Sue Evans, from Monash University in Melbourne, said it was difficult to determine the pandemic’s true impact on cancer in the state.
