{"id":24301,"date":"2022-12-28T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=24301"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:52:20","slug":"delayed-screenings-led-to-late-stage-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/delayed-screenings-led-to-late-stage-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Screenings Led to Increased Late-Stage Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Delayed Screenings Led to Increased Late-Stage Cancer<\/h1>\t\t<time>December 28, 2022<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_75d50a67eb6b4d6c5ea1a43966d8ec60\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>When people were asked to stay home at the beginning of the pandemic, routine preventive cancer screening was just one of many services that<br>paused. In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> reported screening for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer dropped by more than 80% during the early months of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consequences of that pause are showing up. A survey conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astro.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society for Radiation Oncology<\/a> found that radiation oncologists across the nation are reporting patients now have more advanced cancer when they are diagnosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe data is still trickling in, but what we\u2019re hearing from colleagues around the country is consistent with what we\u2019re seeing locally \u2014 when people are diagnosed with cancer it is often at a more advanced stage than what we were experiencing four years ago, before the pandemic,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/strother-john-1518922111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Strother, MD<\/a>, a medical oncologist from <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/find-a-location\/good-samaritan-regional-medical-center-hematology-oncology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samaritan Hematology &amp; Oncology Consultants.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although many people have resumed their regular screenings since 2020, numbers are still below pre\u2011pandemic levels, reports Dr. Strother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t predict the long\u2011term effects of these delayed screenings on cancer survivorship, but we do know that an early diagnosis of cancers like breast, colorectal, lung and cervical gives us more choices and a better chance of successful treatment,\u201d said Dr. Strother. \u201cPreventive care is as essential as ever. If you\u2019re worried about visiting a clinic, talk to your doctor about your individual risk factors and ways to stay safe while getting the care you need. Cancer screening is too important to miss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schedule a visit with your primary care provider to get back on track with your care. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/female-patient-and-doctor-330-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/female-patient-and-doctor-330-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/female-patient-and-doctor-330-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/female-patient-and-doctor-330-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent pandemic caused a more than 80% drop in screenings for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[293],"news-types":[272],"services":[238,229,234],"specialty":[9,55],"class_list":["post-24301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-topics-wellness","news-types-news","services-family-medicine","services-cancer","services-diagnostic-imaging","specialty-family-medicine","specialty-oncology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}