Balan, L.; Secosan, C.; Sorop, V.-B.; Pirtea, M.; Cimpean, A.M.; Chiriac, D.; Balan, C.; Borsi, E.; Iorga, A.; Pirtea, L. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on the Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer and Precursor Lesions—A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Medicina2024, 60, 909.
Balan, L.; Secosan, C.; Sorop, V.-B.; Pirtea, M.; Cimpean, A.M.; Chiriac, D.; Balan, C.; Borsi, E.; Iorga, A.; Pirtea, L. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on the Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer and Precursor Lesions—A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Medicina 2024, 60, 909.
Balan, L.; Secosan, C.; Sorop, V.-B.; Pirtea, M.; Cimpean, A.M.; Chiriac, D.; Balan, C.; Borsi, E.; Iorga, A.; Pirtea, L. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on the Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer and Precursor Lesions—A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Medicina2024, 60, 909.
Balan, L.; Secosan, C.; Sorop, V.-B.; Pirtea, M.; Cimpean, A.M.; Chiriac, D.; Balan, C.; Borsi, E.; Iorga, A.; Pirtea, L. Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on the Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer and Precursor Lesions—A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Medicina 2024, 60, 909.
Abstract
Objective: The aim of our study was to perform a retrospective analysis of the volume of cervical screening tests, the number of patients treated with an excision method, and the incidence of invasive and non-invasive cervical during a pandemic and pre-pandemic period of 24 months. Results: There was a statistically significant age difference between the two study periods, both by the average age of patients and by age group. The mean difference was 32 years before the pan-demic and 35 years during the pandemic (p-value >0.05). The majority of patients presenting for investigations before and during the pandemic were in the 30-39-year-old age group (31.95%, respectively; 34.2% (p-value = 0.003). The biggest patient loss ratio identified by age group was in the 50–59 years: 14,53% in the pre-pandemic period and 9,1% in the pandemic period. In the pan-demic period, patients from rural areas presented in the clinical trial with a lower rate of 39.52% (83 patients) vs. 60.47% (127 patients) in urban areas. A higher percentage of patients experiencing cervicorrhagia as a clinical manifestation in the pandemic period vs. the prepandemic period, with an increase in more severe lesions in the pandemic period, has a statistical significance of 8% more newly diagnosed compared to the pre-pandemic period. Conclusion: The addressability of the patients during the COVID period was not affected in a drastic way in our study. We encountered a decrease in appointments in the age group 50–59 years and a decrease in patients with rural residence. In our study, we found an increase in cervicorrhagia as a reason for consultation in the pandemic period with a higher lesion degree, both on a pap smear and on a cervical biopsy.
Keywords
covid-19; sars-cov-2; cancer diagnosis; conization; cervical cancer; colposcopy; dysplasia; biopsy
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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