The Recovery of Skin Cancer Services Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, Using Combined Speciality Clinics to Decrease Waiting Times and Improve Cost Efficiency
Journal Title: Journal of Dermatology Research - Year 2021, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic continues to have significant ramifications for nonurgent medical treatment and cancer care globally. Provision of healthcare for noncommunicable disease has been dramatically curtailed across the world, in order to redirect resources in a bid to gain control of the coronavirus. There are multiple reports internationally of significant reductions in urgent cancer referrals [1-4]. In England, patients diagnosed with a stage I primary fell for all types of cancer in the first 4 months of the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic levels (March to June 2019 vs 2020; 18400 vs 12400), equating to a drop of approximately 1500 people per month [5]. Skin cancer primaries are amongst the most impacted1, as by September 2020 the estimated number of malignant cancer diagnoses had reached 95% of pre-pandemic activity in all groups except non-melanoma skin cancer [5].
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C Brennan*, M Stone, R Pinder, A Gowda
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- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.46889/JDR.2021.2304
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