Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Cancer. 2021 Jun 15;127(12):2111-2121. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33460. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
BACKGROUND: To understand how health care delays may affect breast cancer detection, the authors quantified changes in breast-related preventive and diagnostic care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: Eligible women (N = 39,444) were aged ≥18 years and received a screening mammogram, diagnostic mammogram, or breast biopsy between January 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020, at 7 academic and community breast imaging facilities in North Carolina. Changes in the number of mammography or breast biopsy examinations after March 3, 2020 (the first COVID-19 diagnosis in North Carolina) were evaluated and compared with the expected numbers based on trends between January 1, 2019 and March 2, 2020. Changes in the predicted mean monthly number of examinations were estimated using interrupted time series models. Differences in patient characteristics were tested using least squares means regression. RESULTS: Fewer examinations than expected were received after the pandemic's onset. Maximum reductions occurred in March 2020 for screening mammography (-85.1%; 95% CI, -100.0%, -70.0%) and diagnostic mammography (-48.9%; 95% CI, -71.7%, -26.2%) and in May 2020 for biopsies (-40.9%; 95% CI, -57.6%, -24.3%). The deficit decreased gradually, with no significant difference between observed and expected numbers by July 2020 (diagnostic mammography) and August 2020 (screening mammography and biopsy). Several months after the pandemic's onset, women who were receiving care had higher predicted breast cancer risk (screening mammography, P < .001) and more commonly lacked insurance (diagnostic mammography, P < .001; biopsy, P < .001) compared with the prepandemic population. CONCLUSIONS: Pandemic-associated deficits in the number of breast examinations decreased over time. Utilization differed by breast cancer risk and insurance status, but not by age or race/ethnicity. Long-term studies are needed to clarify the contribution of these trends to breast cancer disparities.
背景:为了了解医疗保健延迟如何影响乳腺癌的检测,作者量化了 2019 冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行期间与乳房相关的预防和诊断护理的变化。
方法:合格的女性(N=39444)年龄≥18 岁,在北卡罗来纳州的 7 个学术和社区乳房成像设施中于 2019 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 9 月 30 日之间接受了乳房 X 光筛查、诊断性乳房 X 光检查或乳房活检。评估并比较了 2020 年 3 月 3 日(北卡罗来纳州首例 COVID-19 诊断)后乳房 X 光或乳房活检检查次数的变化与 2019 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 3 月 2 日之间的趋势预期数量。使用中断时间序列模型估计预测的平均每月检查次数的变化。使用最小二乘法回归测试患者特征的差异。
结果:大流行开始后接受的检查次数少于预期。2020 年 3 月降幅最大,筛查乳房 X 光检查(-85.1%;95%CI,-100.0%,-70.0%)和诊断性乳房 X 光检查(-48.9%;95%CI,-71.7%,-26.2%),2020 年 5 月活检(-40.9%;95%CI,-57.6%,-24.3%)。到 2020 年 7 月(诊断性乳房 X 光检查)和 2020 年 8 月(筛查乳房 X 光检查和活检),观察到的和预期的数字之间没有显著差异,赤字逐渐减少。大流行开始后几个月,接受治疗的女性乳腺癌风险预测更高(筛查乳房 X 光检查,P<.001),并且更常见的是缺乏保险(诊断性乳房 X 光检查,P<.001;活检,P<.001)与大流行前人群相比。
结论:与乳房检查数量相关的大流行相关赤字随时间减少。利用率因乳腺癌风险和保险状况而异,但与年龄或种族/族裔无关。需要进行长期研究以阐明这些趋势对乳腺癌差异的贡献。
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