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CTV News: Cancer detection has fallen dramatically during the pandemic, worrying experts

There is another side to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Christina Deans’ delayed cancer diagnosis is part of it. Last May, the 35-year-old mother of two found a lump in her right breast the size of a toonie. But it took six long months to get tests, a diagnosis and finally surgery in December to remove …

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CBC News: Breast cancer screening guidelines based on flawed Canadian study, new paper says

A new paper calls into question a decades-old Canadian study that has informed breast cancer screening guidelines for women in their 40s around the world, which generally do not recommend a yearly mammogram. The commentary — co-written by researchers at The Ottawa Hospital, Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta and Harvard Medical …

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Sunnybrook Research Institute

New commentary finds flaws in study that shaped current breast cancer screening guidelines

Researchers at Sunnybrook Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, The University of British Columbia, The University of Alberta and Harvard Medical School have published a new commentary in the Journal of Medical Screening that confirms significant flaws in two Canadian trials conducted in the 1980’s which found that mammograms for women in their 40s did not reduce death …

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