The Missing | Where are all the Prostate Cancers?

Published Erin Turner on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 10:22
Brought to you by the team at GU Cast

It's pretty shocking how many prostate cancers went missing during COVID, especially in Melbourne which experienced the most prolonged lockdown in the world. The data is still being cleaned but it is estimated that up to 3000 men who would have been expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer over the past 2.5 years, have not yet been diagnosed.

September is prostate cancer awareness month in Australia, and this chat with some experts helps us to better understand the issue of the missing cancers. Plus we hear of some worrying examples.

Declan and Renu are joined by Alan White, well known patient advocate, Anne Savage, Chief Executive Director of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, and Professor Grant McArthur, Chair of the Victorian COVID Cancer Network, whose group have been looking at this data in real-time since the start of COVID. Grant is also a prostate cancer survivor himself.

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Prevention, screening and diagnostics
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Early to mid career researcher
Prostate
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