A Statewide Multi-Institutional Study of Asymptomatic Pretreatment Testing of Radiation Therapy Patients for SARS-CoV-2 in a High-Incidence Region of the United States
| Autor: | Sheena Jain, Jennifer Perri, David Mulvihill, A.E. Dragun, Gregory J. Kubicek, M.A. Mezera, Chirag Modi, Karishma Khullar, Ronald D. Ennis, B. Juneja, S. Ahlawat, Bruce G. Haffty, Clarissa F. Henson, Gary Eastwick |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) medicine.medical_treatment R895-920 Disease Asymptomatic Systemic therapy 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Radiation oncology medicine Scientific Article Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging RC254-282 business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens medicine.disease Primary tumor Radiation therapy Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Radiation Oncology, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 100704-(2021) Advances in Radiation Oncology |
| ISSN: | 2452-1094 |
| Popis: | Purpose: Our purpose was to establish the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in asymptomatic patients scheduled to receive radiation therapy and its effect on management decisions. Methods and Materials: Between April 2020 and July 2020, patients without influenza-like illness symptoms at four radiation oncology departments (two academic university hospitals and two community hospitals) underwent polymerase chain reaction testing for SARS-CoV-2 before the initiation of treatment. Patients were tested either before radiation therapy simulation or after simulation but before treatment initiation. Patients tested for indications of influenza-like illness symptoms were excluded from this analysis. Management of SARS-CoV-2-positive patients was individualized based on disease site and acuity. Results: Over a 3-month period, a total of 385 tests were performed in 336 asymptomatic patients either before simulation (n = 75), post-simulation, before treatment (n = 230), or on-treatment (n = 49). A total of five patients tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, for a pretreatment prevalence of 1.3% (2.6% in north/central New Jersey and 0.4% in southern New Jersey/southeast Pennsylvania). The median age of positive patients was 58 years (range, 38-78 years). All positive patients were white and were relatively equally distributed with regard to sex (2 male, 3 female) and ethnicity (2 Hispanic and 3 non-Hispanic). The median Charlson comorbidity score among positive patients was five. All five patients were treated for different primary tumor sites, the large majority had advanced disease (80%), and all were treated for curative intent. The majority of positive patients were being treated with either sequential or concurrent immunosuppressive systemic therapy (80%). Initiation of treatment was delayed for 14 days with the addition of retesting for four patients, and one patient was treated without delay but with additional infectious-disease precautions. Conclusions: Broad-based pretreatment asymptomatic testing of radiation oncology patients for SARS-CoV-2 is of limited value, even in a high-incidence region. Future strategies may include focused risk-stratified asymptomatic testing. |
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