We are seeing more cases of late-stage cancers than usual, possibly due to a decline in screenings. People should go to the hospital without hesitation if they have any symptoms, and also undergo regular examinations.

That's what happens when you scare everyone witless about going near a hospital, same thing has happened in the UK:

No, that is what happens when science deniers and people that promote the idea that "if you are healthy you should continue living normally" cause with widespread infection in the general population. The scientific consensus is that the pandemic is real, is dangerous and strong measures have to be taken to prevent infection that escalate in the same proportion as the infection becomes common in the population.

People using thoroughly debunked ideas such as a significant number of COVID deaths being falsely attributed or that PCR cycles invariably increase false positives can be safely discarded as mistaken.

People taking reasonable preventive measures can err on the side of too much caution, specially when the real danger of infection is compared with the perceived less dangerous early signs of cancer. Telling people all science is wrong and COVID is just a common cold is not the solution, promoting social distancing while emphasizing that you should keep going to the hospital to be screened is the real answer.

Wobot- right on the money. The cure is worse than the disease. Lack of preventive screenings, devastated businesses, lost year for children in many places, etc.

No, that is what happens when science deniers and people that promote the idea that "if you are healthy you should continue living normally" cause with widespread infection in the general population. The scientific consensus is that the pandemic is real, is dangerous and strong measures have to be taken to prevent infection that escalate in the same proportion as the infection becomes common in the population.

Er, no. It's as Wobot said: people have had the bejeezus scared out of them through the fear campaign, and hospitals were discouraging people from coming in for checkups and screenings owing to COVID fears and keeping beds available for COVID patients at the expense of just about everything else.

It’s the amplified effect caused by the pandemic. As it is a daily multi-organic attack on your body , the whole internal body resources now go to keep the unknown new virus load in check and therefore are not sufficient anymore to successfully hinder cancer cells to develop and grow. That’s why those cancerous zones now may grow faster , with less resistance and kind of under the ‘radar’ as everyone, and I agree on that, avoids going to hospitals if not obviously needed.

It's because you have to push and prod for doctors here to do any kind of test. I've had doctors scoff at me for suggesting to do a sputum culture when I had pneumonia. That test came back with some, let's just say interesting results. It doesn't surprise me that people are living life with undiscovered problems like cancer. Lazy Japanese doctors might actually have to work!

Er, no. It's as Wobot said: people have had the bejeezus scared out of them through the fear campaign, and hospitals were discouraging people from coming in for checkups and screenings owing to COVID fears and keeping beds available for COVID patients at the expense of just about everything else.

What hospitals are discouraging people from coming? They are doing precisely the contrary and that is why there is not so many places accepting COVID patients, so the usual ones don't have an excuse to stop attending.

There is no fear campaign, the professionals and experts are doing an information campaign, if you don't like what they are saying and prefer to believe irrational conspiracies that is a completely different thing.