Age-Specific Cancer Mortality in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March to December 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is important to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer death rates in 2020 in the US. We estimated whether there were larger-than-expected changes in cancer mortality rates from March to December 2020 after accounting for temporal and seasonal patterns using data from January 2011 to February 2020 by cancer type and age.

Methods

We obtained death counts and underlying causes of death by cancer type, month/year (2011-2020), and age group from the National Center for Health Statistics and population estimates from the US Census Bureau. Poisson regression was used to test for significant changes in cancer death rates from March to December 2020 compared with prior years.

Results

After accounting for temporal trends and seasonal patterns, t

SUBMITTER: Shiels MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11293979 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature