Cancer diagnostic rates during the 2020 'lockdown', due to COVID-19 pandemic, compared with the 2018-2019 : an audit study from cellular pathology
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AIMS: We performed an audit to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic-related delay in the diagnosis of major cancers at a Pathology Unit of a Secondary Care Hospital Network in Italy.
METHODS: A comparison was made among the number of first cellular pathological diagnoses of malignancy made from the 11th to the 20th week of the years 2018-2020.
RESULTS: Cancer diagnoses fell in 2020 by 39% compared with the average number recorded in 2018 and 2019. Prostate cancer (75%) bladder cancer (66%) and colorectal cancer (CRC; 62%) had the greatest decrease. CRC was identified as carrying a potentially important diagnostic delay.
CONCLUSIONS: For CRC corrective procedures (continuing mass screening tests; patient triage by family physicians; diagnostic procedures alternative to colonoscopy; predictive evaluation on biopsy samples) were advised. Our simple audit model is widely applicable to avoid pandemic-related delay in clinical diagnosis of cancer.
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2021 |
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2021 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:74 |
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Journal of clinical pathology - 74(2021), 3 vom: 19. März, Seite 187-189 |
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Englisch |
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De Vincentiis, Ludovica [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 24.02.2021 Date Revised 24.02.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206833 |
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