The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Genitourinary Cancers Stage and Grade

Our study aims to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of uro-oncological surgeries (cystectomy, nephrectomy, prostatectomy, orchiectomy, and transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT)) and pathological staging and grading. The present study is a retrospective study on pa...

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Published in:Clinical genitourinary cancer 2023-02, Vol.21 (1), p.84-90
Main Authors: Taheri, Diana, Jahanshahi, Fatemeh, Khajavi, Alireza, Kafi, Fatemeh, Pouramini, Alireza, Farsani, Reza M., Alizadeh, Yasamin, Akbarzadeh, Maryam, Reis, Leonardo O., Khatami, Fatemeh, Aghamir, Seyed Mohammad Kazem
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Language:English
Subjects:
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 pandemic
Cystectomy
Cystectomy - methods
Humans
Male
Nephrectomy
Orchiectomy
Pandemics
Prostatectomy
Retrospective Studies
TURBT
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - epidemiology
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - pathology
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - surgery
Urologic Neoplasms - surgery
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Summary:Our study aims to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of uro-oncological surgeries (cystectomy, nephrectomy, prostatectomy, orchiectomy, and transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT)) and pathological staging and grading. The present study is a retrospective study on patients with genitourinary cancers treated from 2018 to 2021 in a referral tertiary center. The data were obtained from the hospital records with lengths of 22 and 23 months, labeled hereafter as non-COVID and COVID pandemic, respectively (2018/3/21-2020/1/20 and 2020/1/21-2021/12/21). The total number of registered patients, gender, age, stage, and grade were compared in the targeted periods. Moreover, all the pathologic slides were reviewed by an expert uropathologist before enrolling in the study. The continuous and discrete variables are reported as mean (standard deviation (SD)) and number (percent) and the χ2 test for the comparison of the discrete variables' distribution. In this study total number of 2077 patients were enrolled. The number of procedures performed decreased during the Covid pandemic. The tumors' distribution stage and grade and patients' baseline characteristics were not significantly different in non-COVID and COVID pandemic periods for Radical Nephrectomy, Radical Cystectomy, Radical Prostatectomy, and orchiectomy. For TURBT only, the tumor stage was significantly different (P-value
ISSN:1558-7673
1938-0682
1938-0682
DOI:10.1016/j.clgc.2022.11.016