Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-small-cell lung cancer pathologic stage and presentation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is believed that the cessation of normative cancer care services during the COVID-19 pandemic may be resulting in pathologic upstaging and higher long-term mortality rates. We aimed to understand how the pandemic has affected our patients diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods

We conducted a single-centre retrospective analysis to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected patient referrals, pathologic stage of NSCLC, mortality rates and surgical procedures at our cancer care centre in Ontario, Canada. At our centre, physicians advocated for and followed recommendations that operations in cancer patients should be among the last procedures to be delayed. Patients were included if they were aged 18 years or older, were not receiving pallia

SUBMITTER: Keogh JAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363128 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature