Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with head and neck cancer in Brandenburg and Berlin

CONCLUSION: Contrary to initial speculation that the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to a decrease in tumour cases, larger tumour stages at initial presentation and a delay in diagnosis and treatment, the cohort studied for Brandenburg and Berlin showed neither a delay in tumour treatment nor an increase in tumour size and stage at initial presentation. The treatments performed, however, were subject to a change in favour of surgery and it remains to be seen whether this trend will be maintained in the long term.PMID:38117331 | DOI:10.1007/s00106-023-01396-6

Source: HNO - December 20, 2023 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Julia Carr é Beatrice Herzog Daniela Reil Constanze Schneider Maren Pfl üger Madlen L öbel Michael Herzog Source Type: research