health-care providers have noticed a steep decline in new diagnoses.“You wonder where some of these cancers are. Some of them are missing in action,” said Dr.
Antoine Eskander, a surgical oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.“We don’t know where they are. We’ve seen a drop in cancer incidence rates, despite there being a very steady rate of cancers being diagnosed in Ontario over the last three, four, five, 10 years.”Part of the problem is people aren’t going to their doctors to get checked or screened, out of fear of getting sick with COVID-19.By the time they do show up, experts say, their cancers are at a far more advanced stage.