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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Post-Pandemic Burden of COVID-19-Related Restrictions in the Management of Digestive Tract Cancers: A Single Center Study.

Andreea-Luiza Palamaru, Gheorghe G Balan, Gabriela Stefanescu, Diana Dumitrascu, Elena Toader

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andreea-Luiza PalamaruFaculty of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, 700101 Iasi, Romania.
Gheorghe G BalanFaculty of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, 700101 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-2919-4940
Gabriela StefanescuFaculty of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, 700101 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-1394-8648
Diana DumitrascuRadiology Department, "St. Spiridon" Emergency County Hospital, 700101 Iasi, Romania.
Elena ToaderFaculty of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, 700101 Iasi, Romania.
Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROSpitalul Clinic Judeţean de Urgenţe "Sf. Spiridon" Iaşi · RO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has required a complete change in the management of patients with gastrointestinal disease who needed to undergo endoscopic procedures. In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to restrictions for elective endoscopic procedures, a large number of cancer patients were prevented from early diagnosis of several digestive cancers, which has led to a serious burden in the health system that now needs to be dealt with. We designed a prospective study that included patients in whom access to elective endoscopic examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic had been delayed. Our aim was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis rate of digestive tract malignancies in the context of health crisis management that generates an ethical dilemma regarding the balance of utilitarianism versus deontology. Our study shows that the decrease in the number of newly diagnosed gastrointestinal cancers by endoscopy and biopsy during the pandemic restrictions and the delay in diagnosis have had a clear impact on stage migration due to disease progression.

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COVID-19delayendoscopyethicsgastrointestinal cancerspandemic

Identifiers

PMID38540655
PMCPMC10969927
OpenAlexW4393003212

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