Rates of newly diagnosed breast cancer at commission on cancer facilities during the early phase of the COVID‐19 pandemic
Marie Fefferman,
Kristine Kuchta,
Chi‐Hsiung Wang
et al.
Abstract:IntroductionThe objective of this study was to examine the impact of the early part of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the number of newly diagnosed breast cancer cases at Commission on Cancer (CoC)‐accredited facilities relative to the United States (U.S.) population.MethodsWe examined the incidence of breast cancer cases at CoC sites using the U.S. Census population as the denominator. Breast cancer incidence was stratified by patient age, race and ethnicity, and geographic location.ResultsA total of 1,499,806 pati… Show more
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