The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung cancer presentation at a high-volume tertiary referral centre in South Africa.

I FredericksE M IrusenB W AllwoodC F N Koegelenberg

Published in: African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine (2024)

Lung cancer is known to have high mortality. The reduction in lung cancer presentation during the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to result in an increase in lung cancer-related morbidity and mortality over the next few years.

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