Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?

BACKGROUND: Since the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 from China, all deferrable medical activities have been suspended, to redirect resources for the management of COVID patients. The goal of this retrospective study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on head and neck cancers’ diagnosis in our Acade...

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Autores principales: De Luca, Pietro, Bisogno, Antonella, Colacurcio, Vito, Marra, Pasquale, Cassandro, Claudia, Camaioni, Angelo, Cassandro, Ettore, Scarpa, Alfonso
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Head and Neck
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8085654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33929609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-06834-1
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author De Luca, Pietro
Bisogno, Antonella
Colacurcio, Vito
Marra, Pasquale
Cassandro, Claudia
Camaioni, Angelo
Cassandro, Ettore
Scarpa, Alfonso
author_facet De Luca, Pietro
Bisogno, Antonella
Colacurcio, Vito
Marra, Pasquale
Cassandro, Claudia
Camaioni, Angelo
Cassandro, Ettore
Scarpa, Alfonso
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description BACKGROUND: Since the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 from China, all deferrable medical activities have been suspended, to redirect resources for the management of COVID patients. The goal of this retrospective study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on head and neck cancers’ diagnosis in our Academic Hospital. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of patients treated for head and neck cancers between March 12 and November 1, 2020 was carried out, and we compared these data with the diagnoses of the same periods of the 5 previous years. RESULTS: 47 patients were included in this study. We observed a significative reduction in comparison with the same period of the previous 5 years. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a decrease in the number of new H&N cancers diagnoses, and a substantial diagnostic delay can be attributable to COVID-19 control measures.
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spelling pubmed-80856542021-04-30 Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect? De Luca, Pietro Bisogno, Antonella Colacurcio, Vito Marra, Pasquale Cassandro, Claudia Camaioni, Angelo Cassandro, Ettore Scarpa, Alfonso Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Head and Neck BACKGROUND: Since the spreading of SARS-CoV-2 from China, all deferrable medical activities have been suspended, to redirect resources for the management of COVID patients. The goal of this retrospective study was to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on head and neck cancers’ diagnosis in our Academic Hospital. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of patients treated for head and neck cancers between March 12 and November 1, 2020 was carried out, and we compared these data with the diagnoses of the same periods of the 5 previous years. RESULTS: 47 patients were included in this study. We observed a significative reduction in comparison with the same period of the previous 5 years. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a decrease in the number of new H&N cancers diagnoses, and a substantial diagnostic delay can be attributable to COVID-19 control measures. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-04-30 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8085654/ /pubmed/33929609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-06834-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Head and Neck
De Luca, Pietro
Bisogno, Antonella
Colacurcio, Vito
Marra, Pasquale
Cassandro, Claudia
Camaioni, Angelo
Cassandro, Ettore
Scarpa, Alfonso
Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
title Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
title_full Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
title_fullStr Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
title_short Diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during COVID-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
title_sort diagnosis and treatment delay of head and neck cancers during covid-19 era in a tertiary care academic hospital: what should we expect?
topic Head and Neck
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8085654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33929609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-021-06834-1
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