Delays in cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic will likely cause a significant increase in cancer cases that could have been caught earlier with screening, and may now be diagnosed at later stages, placing an increased burden on an already strained healthcare system, according to a new research article published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
UVA Cancer Center, Appalachian Community Cancer Alliance, and Buchanan General Hospital have teamed up to make getting screened for lung cancer easier for residents of rural Virginia and West Virginia.
