What is Elective Oncologic Surgery in the Time of COVID-19? A Literature Review of the Impact of Surgical Delays on Outcomes in Patients with Cancer

CONCLUSION: Studies have shown that short-term surgical delays can result in negative impacts on patient outcomes in multiple cancer types as well as in situ carcinoma. Conversely, other cancers such as gastric cancer, advanced melanoma and pancreatic cancer, well-differentiated thyroid cancer, and several genitourinary cancers demonstrated no significant outcome differences with surgical delays.PMID:34142081 | PMC:PMC8208646 | DOI:10.31487/j.COR.2020.06.05

Source: Clinical Breast Cancer - June 18, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Denise Garcia Julie B Siegel David A Mahvi Biqi Zhang David M Mahvi E Ramsay Camp Whitney Graybill Stephen J Savage Antonio Giordano Sara Giordano Denise Carneiro-Pla Mahsa Javid Aaron P Lesher Andrea Abbott Nancy Klauber DeMore Source Type: research