[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer management: Experience of a French Comprehensive Cancer Center].

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on health-care systems and reduced access to care. This study assays the mid-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer management over a 2-year-period in a single French Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Methods

We performed, in a French comprehensive cancer center, an observational study including all patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer between 2019 and 2021. We collected the number of first consultations for breast cancer, the number of breast and axillary surgeries, pTNM and ypTNM cancer staging, the therapeutic sequence (surgery or neoadjuvant chemotherapy as a primary treatment), patients' age and their place of residence.

Results

In total, 14,772 patients had a first consultation for breast

SUBMITTER: Tran M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9513335 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature