ArticleFrontiers in surgery2022
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Breast Cancer Stage and Surgical Volume?
Article in Frontiers in surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Surgical Timing and Safety of Breast Cancer Operations After COVID-19: A Prospective-Only Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- COVID-19 Impact on Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancers at Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram-An Audit.South Asian journal of cancer · 2024Article
- COVID-19 and Breast Cancer: Analysis of Surgical Management of a Large Referral Center during the 2020-2021 Pandemic Period.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on breast cancer surgery using the National Database of Japan.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Breast Cancer Management in the Era of Covid-19; Key Issues, Contemporary Strategies, and Future Implications.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2023Review
- Surgical safety in the COVID-19 era: present and future considerations.Annals of surgical treatment and research · 2022Review
- Changes in breast cancer staging trends among Egyptian women after COVID-19: A retrospective single-center study.International journal of immunopathology and pharmacologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThis study investigates the effects of COVID-19 on the breast cancer stage and the volume of breast cancer surgery in a specialized breast institute.
methodsData of 332 patients who were diagnosed and treated for breast cancer between December 2019 and November 2020 were evaluated retrospectively according to periods of pandemic.
resultsA significant decrease in the number of operations, especially upfront surgeries rather than surgeries after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, was detected in the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was found that patients with complaints were mostly admitted during this period (
conclusionSurgical volume is significantly affected in the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic. To overcome overload due to delayed surgeries related to pandemics, some hospitals should be spared for oncological treatments. Following the early period, mostly luminal type, early-stage patients were admitted, probably because of increased self-awareness and short wave duration, but the breast cancer stage was not affected.
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