Negative excess oral and pharyngeal cancer mortality in Europe during the early pandemic years.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic had direct and indirect effects on oral and pharyngeal cancer (OPC) mortality due to high COVID-19 mortality risk among cancer patients, and to the COVID-19 response that caused treatment delays and reduced routine visits. This study investigated the excess OPC mortality in Europe during the early pandemic years.

Methods

Mortality and population data were gathered from the Eurostat database. The 2011-2019 mortality rates were used to estimate the 2020-2021 expected rates through joinpoint trend analysis. The excess mortality rates (observed minus expected mortality) with 95% confidence intervals (95 CIs) were assessed.

Results

Statistically significant negative excess age-standardized and crude (age strata <65 and ≥65 years) OPC mortali

SUBMITTER: Petti S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11808167 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature