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Back to Episodes'The drop-off was severe.' Cancer screenings declined sharply during the pandemic
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Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people getting screened for cancer fell off a cliff. Even as things have opened up those numbers have not returned to close to the levels they had been at. As a result, a collaboration between the non-profits CancerCare and the Community Oncology Alliance is pushing people to make sure they go and get screened. We wanted to talk about the Time to Screen initiative, so we caught up with Dr. James Perry, Chief Medical Officer for Alliance Cancer Specialists in Pennsylvania.
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