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Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly become a major challenge for global health care systems and affected other priorities such as the utilization of population-based cancer screening services. We sought to examine to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic has affected cancer screening utilizati...

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Autores principales: Shen, Cheng-Ting, Hsieh, Hui-Min, Chang, Yu-Ling, Tsai, Huei-Yi, Chen, Fang-Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35227585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2022.02.006
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author Shen, Cheng-Ting
Hsieh, Hui-Min
Chang, Yu-Ling
Tsai, Huei-Yi
Chen, Fang-Ming
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Hsieh, Hui-Min
Chang, Yu-Ling
Tsai, Huei-Yi
Chen, Fang-Ming
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly become a major challenge for global health care systems and affected other priorities such as the utilization of population-based cancer screening services. We sought to examine to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic has affected cancer screening utilization in Taiwan, even the use of inreach and outreach screening services for different types of cancer screening and different regions. METHODS: Using nationwide cervical, breast, colorectal and oral cancer screening data, the percentage changes in screening participants at inreach and outreach services were calculated and compared between January to April 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic) and January to April 2019. RESULTS: The average percentage change declined from 15% to 40% for cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening, with a nearly 50% decline in oral cancer screening. There was a greater preference for breast and colorectal cancer screening outreach services, which had greater accessibility and declined less than inreach services in most regions. The screening utilization varied in different regions, especially in eastern Taiwan where the less convenient transportation and lower risk of COVID-19 transmission had a positive change on four types of cancer screening outreach services. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic may have had an effect not only in the utilization of different types of cancer screening but also in the preference between inreach and outreach services, and even in variations in screening services in different regions.
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spelling pubmed-88433322022-02-15 Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan Shen, Cheng-Ting Hsieh, Hui-Min Chang, Yu-Ling Tsai, Huei-Yi Chen, Fang-Ming J Formos Med Assoc Original Article BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly become a major challenge for global health care systems and affected other priorities such as the utilization of population-based cancer screening services. We sought to examine to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic has affected cancer screening utilization in Taiwan, even the use of inreach and outreach screening services for different types of cancer screening and different regions. METHODS: Using nationwide cervical, breast, colorectal and oral cancer screening data, the percentage changes in screening participants at inreach and outreach services were calculated and compared between January to April 2020 (COVID-19 pandemic) and January to April 2019. RESULTS: The average percentage change declined from 15% to 40% for cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening, with a nearly 50% decline in oral cancer screening. There was a greater preference for breast and colorectal cancer screening outreach services, which had greater accessibility and declined less than inreach services in most regions. The screening utilization varied in different regions, especially in eastern Taiwan where the less convenient transportation and lower risk of COVID-19 transmission had a positive change on four types of cancer screening outreach services. CONCLUSION: The COVID-19 pandemic may have had an effect not only in the utilization of different types of cancer screening but also in the preference between inreach and outreach services, and even in variations in screening services in different regions. Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2022-10 2022-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8843332/ /pubmed/35227585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2022.02.006 Text en © 2022 Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Shen, Cheng-Ting
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Chang, Yu-Ling
Tsai, Huei-Yi
Chen, Fang-Ming
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title Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
title_full Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
title_fullStr Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
title_short Different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
title_sort different impacts of cancer types on cancer screening during covid-19 pandemic in taiwan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35227585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2022.02.006
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