Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2021 Jun;49(3):211-215. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12632. Epub 2021 Mar 1.
Timely diagnosis and treatment of oral and oropharyngeal cancers are central for the patient's survival. Our objective was to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rate of hospitalizations due to these cancers in Brazil's National Health System (SUS). The number of hospitalizations by these cancers during the first periods of the pandemic-and between the same period of 2016 to 2019-was retrieved from the SUS Hospital Information System. We compared hospitalization rates between pre- and pandemic periods, by State. The hospitalization rate for oral and oropharyngeal cancer during the pandemic was lower than that of the same period of previous years. The decline between 2019 and 2020 was of 49.3%, reaching 60% in the North. The reduction in hospitalization during an extended period suggests that oral and oropharyngeal cancer care will be postponed, with potentially detrimental impact on survival.
及时诊断和治疗口腔和口咽癌对患者的生存至关重要。我们的目的是记录 COVID-19 大流行对巴西国家卫生系统（SUS）中这些癌症住院率的影响。我们从 SUS 医院信息系统中检索了这些癌症在大流行前和大流行期间的住院人数。我们按州比较了大流行前后的住院率。大流行期间口腔和口咽癌的住院率低于前几年同期。2019 年至 2020 年期间下降了 49.3%，在北部地区达到了 60%。延长时间的住院率降低表明，口腔和口咽癌的治疗将被推迟，这可能对生存产生不利影响。
