Text descriptions and data tables for the Road to Recovery: Cancer in the COVID-19 era report
Impacts on cancer diagnoses
PERCENT CHANGE IN NUMBER OF CANCER CASE BY MONTH, 2020 VS. 2015-2019 AVERAGE, ALL CANCER CASES COMBINED
Month
2015-2019
2020
% change
January
12,883
14,283
10.9%
February
11,834
12,795
8.1%
March
13,055
12,445
-4.7%
April
15,744
11,071
-29.7%
May
17,021
11,991
-29.6%
June
16,431
14,625
-11.0%
July
15,411
15,327
-0.5%
August
15,370
14,426
-6.1%
September
15,384
16,354
6.3%
October
16,567
16,047
-3.1%
November
16,395
15,449
-5.8%
December
14,274
14,561
2.0%
Overall
180,369
169,374
-6.1%
Note: Preliminary data from Quebec available only from April onward.
Source: Provincial cancer registries (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan)
PERCENT CHANGE IN NUMBER OF CANCER CASES BY MONTH, 2020 VS. 2015-2019 AVERAGE, FOUR MOST COMMONLY DIAGNOSED CANCERS
Month
Breast
Colorectal
Lung
Prostate
January
15.1
6.4
-12.2
11.0
February
11.7
14.8
-8.9
5.9
March
8.9
-12.4
-23.5
-14.4
April
-30.6
-45.7
-29.6
-51.0
May
-44.7
-32.1
-33.8
-37.9
June
-23.1
-14.3
-21.1
-18.1
July
-11.1
-11.1
-16.1
-4.3
August
-9.7
-11.2
-23.2
-12.1
September
6.7
-2.1
-13.7
-1.6
October
-0.7-
-2.9
-21.2
-8.4
November
0.1
-3.9
-25.9
-11.2
December
7.6
-0.7
-19.8
3.0
Note: Preliminary data from New Brunswick unavailable for this analysis. Data for Quebec available only from April onward.
Source: Provincial cancer registries (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan)
PERCENT CHANGE IN NUMBER OF CANCER CASES BY MONTH, 2020 VS. 2015-2019 AVERAGE, SCREENING AND NON-SCREENING CANCERS
Month
Non-screening
Screening
January
9.4
11.9
February
6.4
14.1
March
-6.2
-0.7
April
-28.4
-36.3
May
-26.5
-38.6
June
-8.0
-18.0
July
-7.2
-10.9
August
-5.9
-10.3
September
3.7
2.7
October
-6.0
-2.8
November
-7.5
-2.0
December
-3.0
3.5
Note: Preliminary data from New Brunswick unavailable for this analysis. Data for Quebec available from April onward.
Source: Provincial cancer registries (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan)