Cancer in the Shadow of COVID: Early-Stage Breast and Prostate Cancer Patient Perspectives on Surgical Delays Due to COVID-19.
Claire M SokasMasami KellyChristina SheuJulia SongH Gilbert WelchRegan BergmarkChristina MinamiQuoc-Dien TrinhPublished in: Annals of surgical oncology (2021)
The clinical effect of delay in cancer surgery will take years to fully understand, but there are immediate steps that can be taken to improve the patient experience of delays in care, including elicitation of individual patient perspectives and ongoing communication. More work is needed to understand the wider experiences of patients, especially minority, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and uninsured patients, who encounter delays in oncologic care.
Keyphrases
- prostate cancer
- coronavirus disease
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- sars cov
- healthcare
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- palliative care
- case report
- radical prostatectomy
- squamous cell
- affordable care act
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- prognostic factors
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- peritoneal dialysis
- rectal cancer
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- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
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- lymph node
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