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Cancer screening is a highly effective preventive measure that can reduce cancer incidence and mortality. COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the ongoing screening activities for early diagnosis of cancers across the globe and the worst affected are low and middle income countries and India is no exception to it. This disruption to cancer screening services may have a significant impact on patients, health care practitioners, and health systems. Through this paper, we aim to offer a comprehensive view on the impact of COVID-19 on cancer screening in India and offer potential solutions to the problems arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic in cancer screening and prevention.

The pandemic of coronavirus disease-19 starting from Wuhan city of Hubei province in China has engulfed the entire world with adverse effects in terms of loss of human lives and stagnation in economies of most of the countries including the developed ones. One important aspect of this ongoing pandemic is its effect on children and their health round the globe. Apart from its direct effect in terms of morbidity and mortality caused by the illness itself, the indirect effect of the pandemic due to disruption of routine health services, closure of schools, isolation, and quarantining of the diseased and suspected persons, prolonged period of being indoors due to lockdown imposed by most of the countries which are having a more dreadful impact on children's health and psychological well-being, which is an alarming sign.