Ontario Medical Association rings the alarm bell over the fact that hundreds of thousands of breast cancer screening procedures were not done and now more patients are showing up with advanced stages of cancer
The COVID-19 pandemic has meant that thousands and thousands of Ontario women were not able to go for mammograms and screen for breast cancer in the past two and a half years. The result, said the Ontario Medical Association was the discovery of more women having advanced cases of cancer once they did their screening.
"And although screenings have returned to forecasted levels, many women still haven't had a mammogram since before March 2020. Experts worry that this means there are undiagnosed cases of breast cancer yet to show up," Zacharias continued. One of the speakers at the online news event was Dr. Jean Seely, a radiologist in Ottawa who is also the president of the Canadian Society of Breast Imaging.
"When it's diagnosed at stage two, it decreases to 80 to 88 per cent. And when it's diagnosed at stage three, it drops further to 77 per cent. When it's diagnosed at stage four at diagnosis, it has a survival rate between 20 and 39 per cent. Very, very difficult." "This time waiting for testing and surgery is obviously incredibly stressful for patients and their families. And compounding this issue is also the backlog that we have of postponed surgeries from the past two and a half years. Because of our current resource limitations, we're actively prioritizing patients with cancer to try to get them done as soon as possible."
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