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The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Global COVID‐19 pandemic has affected cancer care systems. Recent studies show that the number of cases diagnosed with cancer has drastically decreased compared to the same period before the pandemic. Therefore, we are confronted with delayed diagnosis of critical cancers. AIM: The aim o...

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Autores principales: Jahanshahi, Fatemeh, Asadi, Mahboobe, Movahedi, Alireza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36924074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1801
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author Jahanshahi, Fatemeh
Asadi, Mahboobe
Movahedi, Alireza
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description BACKGROUND: Global COVID‐19 pandemic has affected cancer care systems. Recent studies show that the number of cases diagnosed with cancer has drastically decreased compared to the same period before the pandemic. Therefore, we are confronted with delayed diagnosis of critical cancers. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate whether the stage of known cancers has been affected by delayed diagnosis and to compare the stages of head and neck cancers diagnosed during and before the pandemic. METHODS: The present study was conducted on 132 patients with malignant head and neck tumors referred to the otolaryngology, head and neck cancer department of Taleghani Hospital from 2019 to 2021. The stage of cancers was compared between two groups of patients with head and neck malignancy referred to the Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Department of the Taleghani Hospital before and during the COVID‐19 outbreak. RESULTS: The results from tumor (T), nodes (N), and metastases (M) (TNM) staging (p‐value = .015) and T score (value = 0.045) showed that the stage of tumor diagnosed in patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic significantly increased compared to patients diagnosed with a tumor before pandemic. CONCLUSION: In the present study, it was observed that the early symptoms of malignant head and neck tumors have been neglected by patients during COVID‐19 pandemic and resulted in delayed diagnosis. This result may be explained by the fear of COVID‐19 infection in patients, which discouraged them from visiting a doctor at healthcare centers.
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spelling pubmed-101721652023-05-12 The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study Jahanshahi, Fatemeh Asadi, Mahboobe Movahedi, Alireza Cancer Rep (Hoboken) Original Articles BACKGROUND: Global COVID‐19 pandemic has affected cancer care systems. Recent studies show that the number of cases diagnosed with cancer has drastically decreased compared to the same period before the pandemic. Therefore, we are confronted with delayed diagnosis of critical cancers. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate whether the stage of known cancers has been affected by delayed diagnosis and to compare the stages of head and neck cancers diagnosed during and before the pandemic. METHODS: The present study was conducted on 132 patients with malignant head and neck tumors referred to the otolaryngology, head and neck cancer department of Taleghani Hospital from 2019 to 2021. The stage of cancers was compared between two groups of patients with head and neck malignancy referred to the Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Department of the Taleghani Hospital before and during the COVID‐19 outbreak. RESULTS: The results from tumor (T), nodes (N), and metastases (M) (TNM) staging (p‐value = .015) and T score (value = 0.045) showed that the stage of tumor diagnosed in patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic significantly increased compared to patients diagnosed with a tumor before pandemic. CONCLUSION: In the present study, it was observed that the early symptoms of malignant head and neck tumors have been neglected by patients during COVID‐19 pandemic and resulted in delayed diagnosis. This result may be explained by the fear of COVID‐19 infection in patients, which discouraged them from visiting a doctor at healthcare centers. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10172165/ /pubmed/36924074 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1801 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Cancer Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study
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title_full The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study
title_fullStr The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study
title_full_unstemmed The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study
title_short The stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in COVID‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: A retrospective study
title_sort stage of head and neck diagnosed malignancies in covid‐19 outbreak versus before outbreak: a retrospective study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36924074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1801
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