By: J.S., STA
Launching a five-day cancer awareness campaign, Sonja Tomšič, the coordinator of the Slovenian cancer management programme, said that 30% fewer cancer diagnoses than usually were set during the first wave of Covid-19 and about 10% fewer in the next waves.
However, fewer diagnoses do not mean less cancer. Now that the epidemic is waning, the number of newly discovered cases is again as expected but “we still haven’t made up for the delay in discovery” caused by the epidemic, she said.