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Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania

PURPOSE: Our aim was to see the possible effect of the first COVID pandemic wave in Lithuania on colorectal cancer (CRC) preventive, diagnostic and treatment procedures. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed using the database of the National Cancer Institute, Lithuania. We have divided pa...

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Autores principales: Jurkevičiūtė, Dignė, Mauravičiūtė, Sandra, Dulskas, Audrius, Kildušienė, Inga, Stratilatovas, Eugenijus, Jarmalaitė, Sonata
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Publicado: Vilnius University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10417012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37575381
http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Amed.2023.30.1.4
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author Jurkevičiūtė, Dignė
Mauravičiūtė, Sandra
Dulskas, Audrius
Kildušienė, Inga
Stratilatovas, Eugenijus
Jarmalaitė, Sonata
author_facet Jurkevičiūtė, Dignė
Mauravičiūtė, Sandra
Dulskas, Audrius
Kildušienė, Inga
Stratilatovas, Eugenijus
Jarmalaitė, Sonata
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description PURPOSE: Our aim was to see the possible effect of the first COVID pandemic wave in Lithuania on colorectal cancer (CRC) preventive, diagnostic and treatment procedures. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed using the database of the National Cancer Institute, Lithuania. We have divided patients into two groups: group 1 – patients treated during the nonpandemic period (2019 January 1 to 2019 July 31) and group 2 – the pandemic period (2020 January 1 to 2020 July 31). We analyzed numbers of screening, therapeutic colonoscopies performed, and treated patients for CRC during two periods. RESULTS: In general, 1318 lower gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures were performed in the first group and 862 procedures in the second group, which was 34.6% less compared to the first group. The first group included 672 (51%) colonoscopies, 172 (13%) day surgeries and 474 (36%) CRC screening programmes. In group 2, 456 (34.6%) less patients underwent CRC diagnostics and treatment: 141 (21%) less colonoscopies, 93 (54%) less day surgeries, 222 (47%) less CRC screening programmes, and 26 (13%) less patients were hospitalized for surgical treatment (196 vs 170). CONCLUSION: Our study reveals worrying changes in the timely access to diagnostic procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic that possibly provoked rise in cases with the advanced stage CRC. However, despite numerical difference between groups existed, the difference between groups do not reach statistical significant level.
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spelling pubmed-104170122023-08-12 Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania Jurkevičiūtė, Dignė Mauravičiūtė, Sandra Dulskas, Audrius Kildušienė, Inga Stratilatovas, Eugenijus Jarmalaitė, Sonata Acta Med Litu Case Studies PURPOSE: Our aim was to see the possible effect of the first COVID pandemic wave in Lithuania on colorectal cancer (CRC) preventive, diagnostic and treatment procedures. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed using the database of the National Cancer Institute, Lithuania. We have divided patients into two groups: group 1 – patients treated during the nonpandemic period (2019 January 1 to 2019 July 31) and group 2 – the pandemic period (2020 January 1 to 2020 July 31). We analyzed numbers of screening, therapeutic colonoscopies performed, and treated patients for CRC during two periods. RESULTS: In general, 1318 lower gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures were performed in the first group and 862 procedures in the second group, which was 34.6% less compared to the first group. The first group included 672 (51%) colonoscopies, 172 (13%) day surgeries and 474 (36%) CRC screening programmes. In group 2, 456 (34.6%) less patients underwent CRC diagnostics and treatment: 141 (21%) less colonoscopies, 93 (54%) less day surgeries, 222 (47%) less CRC screening programmes, and 26 (13%) less patients were hospitalized for surgical treatment (196 vs 170). CONCLUSION: Our study reveals worrying changes in the timely access to diagnostic procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic that possibly provoked rise in cases with the advanced stage CRC. However, despite numerical difference between groups existed, the difference between groups do not reach statistical significant level. Vilnius University Press 2023 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10417012/ /pubmed/37575381 http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Amed.2023.30.1.4 Text en Copyright © 2023 Dignė Jurkevičiūtė, Sandra Mauravičiūtė, Audrius Dulskas, Inga Kildušienė, Eugenijus Stratilatovas, Sonata Jarmalaitė. Published by Vilnius University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jurkevičiūtė, Dignė
Mauravičiūtė, Sandra
Dulskas, Audrius
Kildušienė, Inga
Stratilatovas, Eugenijus
Jarmalaitė, Sonata
Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania
title Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania
title_full Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania
title_fullStr Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania
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title_short Changes of Colorectal Cancer Diagnostics and Hospitalizations during First Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania
title_sort changes of colorectal cancer diagnostics and hospitalizations during first wave of covid-19 pandemic in lithuania
topic Case Studies
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10417012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37575381
http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Amed.2023.30.1.4
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