Cohort Study: Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumor types in 61 countries.
6 Oct, 2021 | 10:09h | UTC
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What were the unintended consequences of COVID lockdowns on cancer care?@CovidSurg study in @TheLancetOncol:
?Lockdowns independently associated with delayed treatment
?At median 5.3 months f/u, 1 in 7 pts had not had planned cancer surgery?https://t.co/UZe0euq5kg pic.twitter.com/4fPl6UEb9D
— Dmitri Nepogodiev (@dnepo) October 5, 2021