Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on paediatric renal tumour presentation and management, a SIOP renal tumour study group study

Autor: Prakriti Roy, Sophie E. vanPeer, Rana Dandis, Catriona Duncan, Joaquim Caetano deAguirre‐Neto, Arnauld Verschuur, Beatriz deCamargo, Henrike E. Karim‐Kos, Luna Boschetti, Filippo Spreafico, Gema L. Ramirez‐Villar, Norbert Graf, Harm vanTinteren, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, Marry M. van denHeuvel‐Eibrink
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Cancer Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 16, Pp 17098-17111 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-7634
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.6358
Popis: Abstract Background The COVID‐19 pandemic had global catastrophic effects on the management of non‐communicable diseases including paediatric cancers. Restrictions during the start of 2020 complicated timely referrals of patients to specialized centres. We aimed to evaluate the pandemic’s impact on the number of new diagnoses, disease characteristics and management delay for paediatric renal tumour patients included in the SIOP‐RTSG‐UMBRELLA study, as compared with data from a historical SIOP‐RTSG trial (2005–2009). Methods The number of intensive care admissions, population mobility rates and national lockdown periods/restrictions were used as proxies of the pandemic’s severity and impact on societies. Clinical and tumour data were extracted from the SIOP‐RTSG‐UMBRELLA study and from historical SIOP‐RTSG trials. Results During the first lockdown in Europe, the number of newly diagnosed patients decreased following restrictions and population immobilisation. Additionally, there was a higher proportion of advanced disease (37% vs. 17% before and after COVID‐9, p
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