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COVID Affects Cancer Care, Patients’ Mental Health – MedPage Today
Studies: fewer diagnoses, more severe disease, worse outcomes, distressed patients
Lung cancer diagnoses declined and outcomes deteriorated during the first 6 months of 2020, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a retrospective cohort study from Spain.
The number of new lung cancer cases decreased by 38% from January to June 2020 as compared with the same period a year earlier. The 30-day mortality almost doubled, and median overall survival (OS) decreased by more than a month.
“Lung cancer diagnosis is being affected during COVID,” Roxana Reyes, MD, of Hospital…
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