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Cancer screening back to pre-Covid levels, Discovery says

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The latest claims data from Discovery Health Medical Scheme show an improvement in cancer screening rates following the dip during the pandemic years 2020 to 2022. For the most part, they have returned to pre-pandemic levels.

“It isn’t only in South Africa that cancer screenings were missed during the Covid-19 pandemic. A Lancet report estimated that

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