Delayed diagnoses and self-imposed lockdown: Australians living with cancer during Covid

Two years of the pandemic have meant drops in essential screening and detection, while cancer patients undergo treatments alone and isolate to avoid Covid risks

When Claire Simpson turned 50 in early 2020, she received a letter telling her to get a mammogram. Then the pandemic hit, and Victoria went into lockdown.

Like many people, I put it off until we were coming out of that lockdown, but by then it was September and I couldn't get an appointment until December," she says.