Impact of COVID-19 on Gynecological Cancer Incidence: A Large Cohort Study in Japan
Hiroaki Komatsu,
Yuji Ikeda,
Kei Kawana
et al.
Abstract:Background: The influence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the number of newly diagnosed gynecological cancers has not been extensively investigated in Japan. This study aimed to determine the impact of COVID-19 on the incidence of gynecological cancer.
Methods: Using the registry database of the Japanese Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologic Oncology, the distribution of the number of patients by clinical staging or tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) classifications before and during the COVID-19… Show more
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