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Covid-19 outbreak leads to dangerous delay in cancer diagnosis

Decreases in mammograms and other screening procedures after a coronavirus epidemic strikes can lead to missed and delayed cancer diagnoses, according to statistics from insurance claims, lab orders, Medicare billings, and oncology-practice records. Starting this spring, the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of cancer screenings were postponed following concerns about the …

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In the new cases of Covid-19, Europe, U.S.

Europe’s fight to include a second wave of coronavirus has reached a tipping point. This week, Europe surpassed the U.S. in key metrics that monitor the spread of the virus when calculating differences in population size. In 27 countries of the European Union and the UK, Oct. During the seven-day …

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