The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and health among cancer survivors in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer survivors represent a population with high health care needs. If and how cancer survivors were affected by the first year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are largely unknown.

Methods

Using data from the nationwide, population-based Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2017-2020), the authors investigated changes in health-related measures during the COVID-19 pandemic among cancer survivors and compared them with changes among adults without a cancer history in the United States. Sociodemographic and health-related measures such as insurance coverage, employment status, health behaviors, and health status were self-reported. Adjusted prevalence ratios of health-related measures in 2020 versus 2017-2019 were calculated with multivar

SUBMITTER: Han X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537961 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature