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)