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The pandemic may delay progress toward closing racial gaps in cancer outcomes
https://www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org/access-to-care/2022-03-07/the-pandemic-may-delay-progress-toward-closing-racial-gaps-in-cancer-outcomesBefore the pandemic, the Black population had the highest cancer death rate of any racial and ethnic group in the U.S., according to data from the CDC.
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Prior to the pandemic, there was cause for optimism. Cancer death rates decreased for all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. from 2013 to 2018, with the largest decrease among Black Americans, according to a 2022 analysis of CDC data by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Dr. John Carethers attributes at least some of the progress to higher rates of cancer screenings among Black Americans. Carthers is the chair of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and researcher who contributed to a new national report about the impact of the pandemic on cancer care.
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It’s too soon to know exactly how COVID has affected cancer numbers during the pandemic. But one peer-reviewed study found preventative cancer screening rates dropped between 86 and 94 percent in May 2020 compared to the same weeks in 2019 and 2017.
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Prior to the pandemic, there was cause for optimism. Cancer death rates decreased for all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. from 2013 to 2018, with the largest decrease among Black Americans, according to a 2022 analysis of CDC data by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Dr. John Carethers attributes at least some of the progress to higher rates of cancer screenings among Black Americans. Carthers is the chair of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and researcher who contributed to a new national report about the impact of the pandemic on cancer care.
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It’s too soon to know exactly how COVID has affected cancer numbers during the pandemic. But one peer-reviewed study found preventative cancer screening rates dropped between 86 and 94 percent in May 2020 compared to the same weeks in 2019 and 2017.