Coronavirus and the cost of postponed cancer screenings: short delays may not be too damaging, but early detection is still key to survival

John Abraham’s colonoscopy was postponed for several months because of the pandemic. When he finally got it, doctors found a growth too big to be removed safely during the scope exam. He had to wait several weeks for surgery, then several more to learn it had not yet turned cancerous.“I absolutely wonder if I had got screened when I was supposed to have, if this would have been different” and surgery could have been avoided, said Abraham, a mortgage banker in Peoria, in the US state of Illinois…

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