Screening delays due to COVID-19 could increase colon cancer mortality 12%
Researchers created a two-step procedural model that considered the delays in time to coloscopy and estimated the impact of on mortality because of up-staging of patients. Data from the Italian screened population was used to compute the number of expected CRC cases. A meta-analytic approach was used to assess the estimates of the effects of
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