Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on a population‐based breast cancer screening program
Szu-Min Peng, Kuen‐Cheh Yang, Wing P. Chan, Yingwei Wang, Li‐Ju Lin, Amy Ming‐Fang Yen, Robert A. Smith, Chien‐Jen Chen
Abstract
Not only were social events and public facilities closed temporarily due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic, but health services also were affected greatly. In this commentary, the authors discuss how the national program of mammography screening in Taiwan was affected, even without known community‐acquired transmission.
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MedicinePandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)MammographyPublic healthBreast cancer2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)PopulationTransmission (telecommunications)Cancer screeningDiseaseFamily medicineCancerEnvironmental healthVirologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)PathologyInternal medicineTelecommunicationsOutbreakComputer scienceCOVID-19 and healthcare impactsGlobal Cancer Incidence and ScreeningColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection