"I do not fear a wave of new cancer patients: I am worried that it will not come ..." Behind this joke, Professor Jean-Yves Blay, director general of the Léon-Bérard cancer center (Lyon ) and president of Unicancer, expresses a real fear: diagnostic delays.
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Fear of consulting because of the epidemic, difficulty in accessing radiology centers, excessive compliance with government instructions ... "We have all clearly seen that during this Covid period, the number of new patients admitted with cancer decreased drastically " , Says Professor Benjamin Besse, head of the oncological medicine department at Gustave-Roussy (Villejuif). “There were between 20 and 50% fewer diagnoses in March-April in cancer centers , confirms Professor Blay. People are starting to come back, but not as much as we expected. ” "We had the feeling of welcoming more serious patients, probably patients who did not have the
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