It is essential to quantify the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer screening, including
for vulnerable sub-populations, to inform the development of evidence-based, targeted …

Background Disparities in cervical cancer screening are known to exist in Ontario, Canada
for foreign-born women. The relative importance of various barriers to screening may vary …

OBJECTIVES: We compared the prevalence of appropriate cervical cancer screening among
screening-eligible immigrant women from major geographic regions of the world and native…

Objective: Women who are immigrants or socioeconomically disadvantaged have been
found to have significantly lower cervical cancer screening rates than their peers in Toronto, …

Importance The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted cancer systems worldwide. Quantifying
the changes is critical to informing the delivery of care while the pandemic continues, as well …

Primary care physicians can serve as both facilitators and barriers to cancer screening,
particularly for under‐screened groups such as immigrant patients. The objective of this study …

Introduction Marginalized populations such as immigrants and refugees are less likely to
receive cancer screening. Cancer Awareness: Ready for Education and Screening (CARES), a …

… For instance, Lofters et al. reported that being in the lowest income quintile and being a …
AISHA K LOFTERS is a family physician and a Clinician scientist at the University of Toronto…

Background: Immigrant women are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer in Ontario.
Religion may play a role for some women. In this population-based retrospective cohort study…

Importance Breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer–screening disparities existed prior to the
COVID-19 pandemic, and it is unclear whether those have changed since the pandemic. …