Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the surgical treatment of gastric cancer

CONCLUSION: A decrease in the average number of surgeries and a higher frequency of diagnostic procedures occurred during the pandemic than in the previous time period. Tumor/node/metastasis classification, morbidity rates, and mortality rates in patients with GC during the pandemic did not differ from those in the previous time period. Accordingly, GC surgical treatment with acceptable screening protocol compliance could be safely performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.PMID:34852144 | DOI:10.6061/clinics/2021/e3508

Source: Cancer Control - December 1, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Amanda Juliani Arneiro Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille Ramos Marina Alessandra Pereira Andr é Roncon Dias Bruno Zilberstein Ulysses Ribeiro Junior Sergio Carlos Nahas Source Type: research