The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on symptomatic breast cancer presentations in an Irish breast cancer unit: a retrospective cohort study.
Áine HigginsSéamus O'ReillyMartin J O'SullivanPublished in: Irish journal of medical science (2024)
Symptomatic breast cancers diagnosed since the onset of COVID-19 demonstrated an increase in new metastatic presentations and more aggressive histopathological characteristics when compared to a pre-pandemic control group. Rates of adjuvant radiotherapy and axillary surgery increased during the pandemic.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- early stage
- minimally invasive
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- lymph node
- squamous cell carcinoma
- small cell lung cancer
- coronary artery bypass
- sentinel lymph node
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- radiation induced
- locally advanced
- ultrasound guided
- acute coronary syndrome
- childhood cancer
- coronary artery disease
- surgical site infection
- primary care
- young adults
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- breast cancer risk