The Cost of a Year Without Cancer Screenings

Duaa Eldeib, investigative reporter for ProPublica, talks about her reporting that avoiding healthcare settings during the worst of the pandemic has led in some cases to cancers being found at later stages when treatment options are more limited. She is joined by Pam Khosla, MD, chief of hematology oncology at Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital where she chairs the cancer committee and associate professor of internal medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Health Sciences, who shares what she's seeing in her practice.

→"A Crisis of Undiagnosed Cancers Is Emerging in the Pandemic’s Second Year" (ProPublica, May 4, 2021)