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SUBMITTER: Ferrara G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7543252 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferrara Gerardo G De Vincentiis Ludovica L Ambrosini-Spaltro Andrea A Barbareschi Mattia M Bertolini Valentina V Contato Edgardo E Crivelli Filippo F Feyles Elda E Mariani Maria Paola MP Morelli Luca L Orvieto Enrico E Pacella Elena E Venturino Ezio E Saragoni Luca L
American journal of clinical pathology 20210101 1
<h4>Objectives</h4>We performed data collection concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-related delay in the diagnosis of cancers to individuate proper corrective procedures.<h4>Methods</h4>A comparison was made among the number of first pathologic diagnoses of malignancy made from weeks 11 to 20 of 2018, 2019, and 2020 at seven anatomic pathology units serving secondary care hospitals in northern-central Italy.<h4>Results</h4>Cancer diagnoses fell in 2020 by 44.9% compared w ...[more]