Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Department of Breast Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
Br J Cancer. 2023 Feb;128(3):481-483. doi: 10.1038/s41416-022-02054-4. Epub 2022 Nov 12.
Cancer services were seriously disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using publicly available data for England, we show that breast cancer diagnoses decreased substantially in the first year of the pandemic, but have recovered to at least pre-pandemic levels. Long term follow-up is needed to assess the impact on outcomes.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间,癌症服务受到严重干扰。我们使用英国公开可用的数据表明,大流行的第一年乳腺癌诊断数量大幅下降,但已恢复到至少疫情前的水平。需要进行长期随访以评估对结果的影响。