Three-Year Analysis of the Rectal Cancer Care Trajectory after the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vlad Braicu, Lazar Fulger, Aditya Nelluri, Ram Kiran Maganti, Uday Shree Akkala Shetty, Gabriel Verdes, Dan Brebu, Catalin Dumitru, Ana-Olivia Toma, Ovidiu Rosca, Ciprian Duta · 2023
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Vlad Braicu and co-authors track how rectal cancer care changed in Romania during and after the pandemic. Their 2023 study covers patients who had surgery from 2019 to 2022. The year 2019 served as a pre pandemic control. In all, the database work is set against a sharp fall in surgical work versus that control year. Yearly counts then rose by about ten percent a year.
Keyhole surgery doubled as a share, from twenty five percent in 2020 to 47.5 percent in 2022. Planned surgery rose to 79.7 percent in the last year, as emergency cases fell. Use of treatment before surgery also rose. Yet stage at diagnosis grew worse over time. The share of stage four cases doubled, from 12.5 to 25.4 percent. Blood protein levels and fitness scores also differed by year.
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| CREATOR | Vlad Braicu, Lazar Fulger, Aditya Nelluri, Ram Kiran Maganti, Uday Shree Akkala Shetty, Gabriel Verdes, Dan Brebu, Catalin Dumitru, Ana-Olivia Toma, Ovidiu Rosca, Ciprian Duta |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |