FIGURE 2.
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on cancer treatments and hospitals in Canada. (A) Modeled percent change in cancer treatments for Canada as a whole. The percent change in surgeries is based on data on the volume of cancer surgeries in 2020 to 2021 relative to the same month in 2019, using data from the Canadian Institute of Health Information portal extracted on 28 May 2021. The percent change in radiotherapies is based on the yearly volume of radiotherapies in 2020 relative to 2019 reported by the Canadian Institute of Health Information, 6 rescaled by month using the surgery data. Chemotherapies were assumed to follow the same changes as radiotherapies. (B) Number of people hospitalized for COVID‐19 in Canada from February 2020 to May 2021. Data compiled by Radio‐Canada extracted on 1 June 2021. 22