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Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic posed a number of challenges to the oncology community, particularly the diagnosis and care of cancer patients while ensuring safety from the virus for both patients and professionals: minimization of visits to the hospital, cancellation of the s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8975538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34935934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab214 |
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author | Neamţiu, Luciana Martos, Carmen Giusti, Francesco Negrão Carvalho, Raquel Randi, Giorgia Dimitrova, Nadya Flego, Manuela Dyba, Tadeusz Bettio, Manola Gavin, Anna Visser, Otto |
author_facet | Neamţiu, Luciana Martos, Carmen Giusti, Francesco Negrão Carvalho, Raquel Randi, Giorgia Dimitrova, Nadya Flego, Manuela Dyba, Tadeusz Bettio, Manola Gavin, Anna Visser, Otto |
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description | BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic posed a number of challenges to the oncology community, particularly the diagnosis and care of cancer patients while ensuring safety from the virus for both patients and professionals: minimization of visits to the hospital, cancellation of the screening programmes and the difficulties in the management and operation of cancer registries (CRs) while working remotely. This article describes the effects in the medium term of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration in Europe, focusing on changes in cancer detection and treatment, possible reduction of CR resources and difficulties in the access to data sources. METHODS: A questionnaire was distributed in June 2020 to the directors of 108 CRs from 34 countries affiliated to the European Network of Cancer Registries, providing a 37% response rate. RESULTS: The results of the survey showed that cancer-screening programmes were mostly stopped or slowed down in the majority of regions covered by the respondent CRs. Cancer diagnostics and treatments were severely disrupted. The cancer registration process was also disrupted, due to changes in the work modalities for the personnel, as well as to the difficulties in accessing sources and/or receiving the notifications. In some CRs, staff was allocated to different activities related to controlling the pandemic. Several CRs reported that they were investigating the impact of COVID-19 on cancer care via dedicated studies. CONCLUSIONS: A careful analysis will be necessary for proper interpretation of temporal and geographical variations of the 2020 cancer burden indicators. |
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spelling | pubmed-89755382022-04-04 Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey Neamţiu, Luciana Martos, Carmen Giusti, Francesco Negrão Carvalho, Raquel Randi, Giorgia Dimitrova, Nadya Flego, Manuela Dyba, Tadeusz Bettio, Manola Gavin, Anna Visser, Otto Eur J Public Health Covid-19 BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic posed a number of challenges to the oncology community, particularly the diagnosis and care of cancer patients while ensuring safety from the virus for both patients and professionals: minimization of visits to the hospital, cancellation of the screening programmes and the difficulties in the management and operation of cancer registries (CRs) while working remotely. This article describes the effects in the medium term of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration in Europe, focusing on changes in cancer detection and treatment, possible reduction of CR resources and difficulties in the access to data sources. METHODS: A questionnaire was distributed in June 2020 to the directors of 108 CRs from 34 countries affiliated to the European Network of Cancer Registries, providing a 37% response rate. RESULTS: The results of the survey showed that cancer-screening programmes were mostly stopped or slowed down in the majority of regions covered by the respondent CRs. Cancer diagnostics and treatments were severely disrupted. The cancer registration process was also disrupted, due to changes in the work modalities for the personnel, as well as to the difficulties in accessing sources and/or receiving the notifications. In some CRs, staff was allocated to different activities related to controlling the pandemic. Several CRs reported that they were investigating the impact of COVID-19 on cancer care via dedicated studies. CONCLUSIONS: A careful analysis will be necessary for proper interpretation of temporal and geographical variations of the 2020 cancer burden indicators. Oxford University Press 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8975538/ /pubmed/34935934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab214 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. 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 reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Covid-19 Neamţiu, Luciana Martos, Carmen Giusti, Francesco Negrão Carvalho, Raquel Randi, Giorgia Dimitrova, Nadya Flego, Manuela Dyba, Tadeusz Bettio, Manola Gavin, Anna Visser, Otto Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey |
title | Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey |
title_full | Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey |
title_fullStr | Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey |
title_short | Impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a European survey |
title_sort | impact of the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic on cancer registration and cancer care: a european survey |
topic | Covid-19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8975538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34935934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab214 |
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