{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Fu R"],"funding":["Grant and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating","Sunnybrook Research Institute and Sunnybrook Foundation COVID-19 Response"],"pagination":["pkac062"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9454672"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["COVID-19 has had a detrimental effect on the provision of cancer surgery, but its impact beyond the first 6 months of the pandemic remains unclear. We used data on 799 220 cancer surgeries performed in Ontario, Canada, during 2018-2021 and segmented regression to address this knowledge gap. With the arrival of the first COVID-19 wave (March 2020), mean cancer surgical volume decreased by 57%. Surgical volume then rose by 2.5% weekly and reached prepandemic levels in 8 months. The surgical backlog after the first wave was 47 639 cases. At the beginning of the second COVID-19 wave (January 2021), mean cancer surgical volume dropped by 22%. Afterward, surgical volume did not actively recover (2-sided P = .25), resulting in a cumulative backlog of 66 376 cases as of August 2021. These data urge the strengthening of the surgical system to quickly clear the backlog in anticipation of a tsunami of newly diagnosed cancer patients in need of surgery."],"journal":["JNCI cancer spectrum"],"pubmed_title":["The Changing Face of Cancer Surgery During Multiple Waves of COVID-19."],"pmcid":["PMC9454672"],"funding_grant_id":["#179892"],"pubmed_authors":["Fu R","Eskander A","Kamalraj P","Li Q","Gomez D","Hallet J","Sutradhar R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The Changing Face of Cancer Surgery During Multiple Waves of COVID-19.","description":"COVID-19 has had a detrimental effect on the provision of cancer surgery, but its impact beyond the first 6 months of the pandemic remains unclear. We used data on 799 220 cancer surgeries performed in Ontario, Canada, during 2018-2021 and segmented regression to address this knowledge gap. With the arrival of the first COVID-19 wave (March 2020), mean cancer surgical volume decreased by 57%. Surgical volume then rose by 2.5% weekly and reached prepandemic levels in 8 months. The surgical backlog after the first wave was 47 639 cases. At the beginning of the second COVID-19 wave (January 2021), mean cancer surgical volume dropped by 22%. Afterward, surgical volume did not actively recover (2-sided P = .25), resulting in a cumulative backlog of 66 376 cases as of August 2021. These data urge the strengthening of the surgical system to quickly clear the backlog in anticipation of a tsunami of newly diagnosed cancer patients in need of surgery.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Sep","modification":"2025-04-19T18:29:42.797Z","creation":"2025-04-19T18:29:42.797Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9454672","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35980176"],"doi":["10.1093/jncics/pkac062"]}}