The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon pancreatic cancer treatment (CONTACT Study) : a UK national observational cohort study

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INTRODUCTION: CONTACT is a national multidisciplinary study assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon diagnostic and treatment pathways among patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

METHODS: The treatment of consecutive patients with newly diagnosed PDAC from a pre-COVID-19 pandemic cohort (07/01/2019-03/03/2019) were compared to a cohort diagnosed during the first wave of the UK pandemic ('COVID' cohort, 16/03/2020-10/05/2020), with 12-month follow-up.

RESULTS: Among 984 patients (pre-COVID: n = 483, COVID: n = 501), the COVID cohort was less likely to receive staging investigations other than CT scanning (29.5% vs. 37.2%, p = 0.010). Among patients treated with curative intent, there was a reduction in the proportion of patients recommended surgery (54.5% vs. 76.6%, p = 0.001) and increase in the proportion recommended upfront chemotherapy (45.5% vs. 23.4%, p = 0.002). Among patients on a non-curative pathway, fewer patients were recommended (47.4% vs. 57.3%, p = 0.004) or received palliative anti-cancer therapy (20.5% vs. 26.5%, p = 0.045). Ultimately, fewer patients in the COVID cohort underwent surgical resection (6.4% vs. 9.3%, p = 0.036), whilst more patients received no anti-cancer treatment (69.3% vs. 59.2% p = 0.009). Despite these differences, there was no difference in median overall survival between the COVID and pre-COVID cohorts, (3.5 (IQR 2.8-4.1) vs. 4.4 (IQR 3.6-5.2) months, p = 0.093).

CONCLUSION: Pathways for patients with PDAC were significantly disrupted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with fewer patients receiving standard treatments. However, no significant impact on survival was discerned.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:128

Enthalten in:

British journal of cancer - 128(2023), 10 vom: 23. Mai, Seite 1922-1932

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hall, Lewis A [VerfasserIn]
McKay, Siobhan C [VerfasserIn]
Halle-Smith, James [VerfasserIn]
Soane, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Osei-Bordom, Daniel-Clement [VerfasserIn]
Goodburn, Lesley [VerfasserIn]
Magill, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Pinkney, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Radhakrishna, Ganesh [VerfasserIn]
Valle, Juan W [VerfasserIn]
Corrie, Pippa [VerfasserIn]
Roberts, Keith J [VerfasserIn]
CONTACT Study Group [VerfasserIn]
Goodburn, Lesley [Sonstige Person]
Hughes, Terry [Sonstige Person]
Perry, Rita [Sonstige Person]
Walters, Michael [Sonstige Person]
Acharya, Radhika [Sonstige Person]
Binnersly, Thomas [Sonstige Person]
Brown, Samuel J [Sonstige Person]
Everitt, Rebecca [Sonstige Person]
Hargreaves, Oscar [Sonstige Person]
Hodgson, Samuel [Sonstige Person]
Parylo, Jacek [Sonstige Person]
Perrett, Madeleine [Sonstige Person]
Smith, Daniel J [Sonstige Person]
Thorne, Thomas [Sonstige Person]
Abouelazayem, Mohamed [Sonstige Person]
Bradley, Alison [Sonstige Person]
Currow, Chelise [Sonstige Person]
Fox, Richard [Sonstige Person]
Giles, Benjamin [Sonstige Person]
Kourdouli, Amar [Sonstige Person]
Mahmood, Fahad [Sonstige Person]
Moir, John [Sonstige Person]
Mowbray, Nicholas [Sonstige Person]
Shotton, Rohan [Sonstige Person]
Vivekananthan, Cavitha [Sonstige Person]
Zakeri, Roxanna [Sonstige Person]
Abbadi, Reyad [Sonstige Person]
Abbott, Sian [Sonstige Person]
Abdelrahim, Hamza [Sonstige Person]
Abukar, Yusria [Sonstige Person]
Adel, Nader [Sonstige Person]
Adwan, Hussamuddin [Sonstige Person]
Ahmed, Marriam [Sonstige Person]
Ahmed, Shehzad [Sonstige Person]
Ahmed, Irfan [Sonstige Person]
Akotat, Ouiam [Sonstige Person]
Al-Sarireh, Bilal [Sonstige Person]
Alamassi, Amro [Sonstige Person]
Aldous, Gemma [Sonstige Person]
Alkari, Bassam [Sonstige Person]
Almonib, Ahmed [Sonstige Person]
Amin, Jasim [Sonstige Person]
Anjum, Muhammad Raheel [Sonstige Person]
Aroori, Somaiah [Sonstige Person]
Arshad, Ali [Sonstige Person]
Arya, Pallavi [Sonstige Person]
Asfandyar, Syed [Sonstige Person]
Aslam, Usama [Sonstige Person]
Aspinall, Richard [Sonstige Person]
Athwal, Tejinderjit [Sonstige Person]
Azam, Saima [Sonstige Person]
Bailey, Robert [Sonstige Person]
Bandlamudi, Nanda [Sonstige Person]
Barker, Sophie [Sonstige Person]
Bashir, Khalid [Sonstige Person]
Bavikatte, Akshay [Sonstige Person]
Belchita, Raluca [Sonstige Person]
Beluso, Ann [Sonstige Person]
Bevan, Katharine [Sonstige Person]
Bhatti, Imran [Sonstige Person]
Boulbadaoui, Amal [Sonstige Person]
Boyce, Tamsin [Sonstige Person]
Bradley, Neil [Sonstige Person]
Brooks, Corinne [Sonstige Person]
Brown, Christopher [Sonstige Person]
Burns, Stephanie [Sonstige Person]
Butler, Linda [Sonstige Person]
Byrne, Hannah [Sonstige Person]
Canelo, Ruben [Sonstige Person]
Ceresa, Carlo [Sonstige Person]
Chadwick, Georgina [Sonstige Person]
Charlesworth, Irene [Sonstige Person]
Chase, Thomas [Sonstige Person]
Chen, Patrick [Sonstige Person]
Chhabra, Raunaq [Sonstige Person]
Chin, Mei Ying [Sonstige Person]
Choudhry, Zeshan [Sonstige Person]
Chung, Yooyun [Sonstige Person]
Ciocarlan, Svetlana [Sonstige Person]
Clark, Jennifer [Sonstige Person]
Clyde, Danielle [Sonstige Person]
Connolly, Maureen [Sonstige Person]
Connors, Kathleen [Sonstige Person]
Cormack, Jonathan [Sonstige Person]
Coyle, Meghan [Sonstige Person]
Crumley, Andrew [Sonstige Person]
Davies, Nick [Sonstige Person]
Davies, Emma [Sonstige Person]
de Liguori-Carino, Nicola [Sonstige Person]
Di Franco, Filippo [Sonstige Person]
Diong, Kok [Sonstige Person]
Doe, Matt [Sonstige Person]
Donovan, Victoria [Sonstige Person]
Downs, Jennifer [Sonstige Person]
Easton, Trish [Sonstige Person]
Ekong, Tolu [Sonstige Person]
Ekpenyong, Utitofon [Sonstige Person]
El-Housseri, Tarek [Sonstige Person]
Elmaradny, Ahmed [Sonstige Person]
Elzubier, Mohamed [Sonstige Person]

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Date Completed 01.05.2023

Date Revised 28.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41416-023-02220-2

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NLM354645323