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During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients newly diagnosed with cancer were more likely to receive nonsurgical therapy as an initial treatment, according to new data from Ontario, Canada.

In addition, during the pandemic, wait times were shorter for patients with cancer―they were treated within 6 months of diagnosis.

"Many of the pandemic-related impacts on cancer patients are not immediately visible. This is something that modeling and simulation studies can help demonstrate, and modelers need data, including the treatment modality data provided in our study," study author Rui Fu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, told Medscape Medical News.

"From a policy planning perspective, understanding what has already occurred in the cancer space is important to help decision-makers prepare for the future," she added. Head over to Medscape to read the full story.