1. Effect of lockdown on digestive system cancer care amongst older patients during the first wave of COVID-19: The CADIGCOVAGE multicentre cohort study
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Nathalie Ganne, François Hemery, Laurent Quero, Frédéric Prat, Thomas Aparicio, Nicola de Angelis, Gilles Galula, Richard Layese, Marc-Antoine Benderra, Atanas Pachev, Christophe Tournigand, Elena Paillaud, Florence Canouï-Poitrine, Hopital Saint-Louis [AP-HP] (AP-HP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Service de santé publique [Mondor], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), CHU Henri Mondor, Cooperator Multidisciplinary Oncology Group (GERCOR), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-IFR10, Département de Santé Publique [Avicenne], Hôpital Avicenne [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], Service d'Oncologie médicale [CHU Tenon], CHU Tenon [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), IMRB - CEPIA/'Clinical Epidemiology And Ageing : Geriatrics, Primary Care and Public Health' [Créteil] (U955 Inserm - UPEC), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Gestionnaire, HAL Sorbonne Université 5
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Male ,Paris ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Digestive cancer ,[SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,Disease ,Digestive System Neoplasms ,Health Services Accessibility ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,[SDV.CAN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,Internal medicine ,Lockdown ,Older patients ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pandemics ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,Public health ,Hepatology ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Gastroenterology ,COVID-19 ,Cancer ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,Oncology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Communicable Disease Control ,Cohort ,Female ,Observational study ,business ,Cohort study - Abstract
International audience; Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a dramatic impact on cancer diagnosis and treatment. Most patients newly diagnosed with digestive system cancer are aged 65 and over. Methods: We performed a retrospective, observational, multicentre cohort study based on prospectively collected electronic health records. All adults aged 65 or over and having been newly treated for a digestive system cancer between January 2018 until August 2020 were enroled. Results: Data on 7882 patients were analysed. The first COVID-19 lockdown period led to a 42.4% decrease in newly treated digestive system cancers, and the post-lockdown period was associated with a 17% decrease. The decrease in newly treated digestive system cancer did not differ as a function of age, sex, comorbidities, primary tumour site, and disease stage. The proportion of patients admitted to an emergency department increased during the lockdown period. We do not observe a higher 3-month mortality rate in 2020, relative to the corresponding calendar periods in 2018 and 2019. Conclusion: To avoid a decrease in newly treated cancers during future lockdown periods, access to healthcare will have to be modified. Although 3-month mortality did not increase in any of the patient subgroups, the 2020 cohort must be followed up for long-term mortality.
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- 2022
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