Rutherford Cancer Centres, London, United Kingdom
Mini Review
Life-Years and Lockdowns: Estimating the Effects on Covid-19 and Cancer Outcomes from the UK's Response to the Pandemic
Author(s): Pinar Jenkins, Karol Sikora* and Paul Dolan
Every policy has direct and indirect effects of intended and unintended
consequences. Policies that require people to stay at home to reduce the
morbidity and mortality from Covid-19 will have effects beyond the virus. For
example, they will adversely affect mental health and economic prospects for
many. They will also affect people’s willingness and ability to access health and
social services. This is likely to result in increases in morbidity and mortality
from otherwise curable diseases, such as cancer, acute myocardial infarction
and stroke. A comparison between Covid-19 deaths prevented and excess
cancer deaths caused shows it is possible that preventing Covid-19 deaths
through lockdowns might result in more life-years being lost than saved... View More»
DOI:
10.35248/ejco.21.3.003
