Reduced breast and lung cancer screening rates in the U.S. during COVID pandemic Cancer Coronavirus Disease COVID BreastCancer LungCancer Pandemic CancerScreening JAMANetworkOpen utmbhealth
By Dr. Chinta SidharthanFeb 8 2023Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers determined whether the rates for cancer screening tests, such as mammograms for breast cancer and low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer, decreased during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
However, the cancer screening rates beyond 2020 have not been studied in detail. Some reports indicate that the rates declined again during the first two months of 2021. For a descriptive analysis of cohorts, 64 monthly cohorts were formed based on Medicaid recipients who were alive on the first of every month between January 2017 and April 2022. While the mammography cohort comprised only females between the ages of 50 and 74, the low-dose CT cohort consisted of enrollees of both genders between the ages of 55 and 79.
Delayed mammograms and lung CT screening between 2020 and 2021 A continued decrease in cancer screening rates was observed from 2021 until early 2022. Notably, this reduction in screening rates was not uniformly lower across this period. Between March 2020 to February 2021, low-dose CT and mammography rates were 24% and 17% below the expected rates, respectively. Between March 2021 and February 2022, the rates were 14% and 4% lower than expected, respectively.
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