Department of Urology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Luebeck, Germany.
Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology and Department of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562, Luebeck, Germany.
World J Urol. 2022 Feb;40(2):409-418. doi: 10.1007/s00345-021-03868-2. Epub 2021 Nov 30.
PURPOSE: To date, over 4.2 million Germans and over 235 million people worldwide have been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Uro-oncology (UO) patients are particularly vulnerable but in urgent need of life-saving systemic treatments. Our multicentric study examined the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the medical care of UO patients in German university hospitals receiving ongoing systemic anti-cancer treatment and to detect the delay of medical care, defined as deferred medical treatment or deviation of the pre-defined follow-up assessment. METHODS: Data of 162 UO patients with metastatic disease undergoing systemic cancer treatment at five university hospitals in Germany were included in our analyses. The focus of interest was any delay or change in treatment between February 2020 and May 2020 (first wave of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany). Statistical analysis of contingency tables were performed using Pearson's chi-squared and Fisher's exact tests, respectively. Effect size was determined using Cramér's V (V). RESULTS: Twenty-four of the 162 patients (14.8%) experienced a delay in systemic treatment of more than 2 weeks. Most of these received immuno-oncologic (IO) treatments (13/24, 54.2%, p = 0.746). Blood tests were delayed or canceled significantly more often in IO patients but with a small effect size (21.1%, p = 0.042, V = 0.230). Treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (12/73, 16.4%) and urothelial carcinoma (7/32, 21.9%) was affected the most. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the medical care of UO patients, but deferment remained modest. There was a tendency towards delays in IO and ADT treatments in particular.
目的:迄今为止,全球已有超过 420 万德国人以及超过 2.35 亿人感染了严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2(SARS-CoV-2)。泌尿肿瘤学(UO)患者尤其易受感染,但他们急需进行挽救生命的系统治疗。我们的多中心研究调查了 COVID-19 危机对德国大学医院接受持续系统抗癌治疗的 UO 患者的医疗护理的影响,并检测了医疗护理的延迟,定义为延迟治疗或偏离预先确定的随访评估。
方法:我们的分析纳入了在德国五所大学医院接受转移性疾病系统治疗的 162 名 UO 患者的数据。关注的焦点是 2020 年 2 月至 2020 年 5 月(德国 COVID-19 危机的第一波)期间治疗的任何延迟或变化。使用 Pearson 的卡方和 Fisher 精确检验分别对列联表进行了统计学分析。使用 Cramér 的 V(V)确定效应大小。
结果:162 名患者中有 24 名(14.8%)经历了超过 2 周的系统治疗延迟。其中大多数接受免疫肿瘤学(IO)治疗(13/24,54.2%,p=0.746)。IO 患者的血液检查延迟或取消的情况明显更为常见,但效应量较小(21.1%,p=0.042,V=0.230)。受影响最大的是肾细胞癌(12/73,16.4%)和尿路上皮癌(7/32,21.9%)患者的治疗。
结论:我们的数据表明,COVID-19 大流行影响了 UO 患者的医疗护理,但推迟的情况仍然较为温和。特别是 IO 和 ADT 治疗有延迟的趋势。
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