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COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study.

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Vigliar, E; Pisapia, P; Dello Iacovo, F; Alcaraz-Mateos, E; Alì, G; Ali, SZ; Baloch, ZW; Bellevicine, C; Bongiovanni, M; Botsun, P; Bruzzese, D ...
Published in: Cancer Cytopathol
May 2022

BACKGROUND: In a previous worldwide survey, the authors showed a drastic reduction in the number of cytological specimens processed during the coronavirus disease 2019 "lockdown" period along with an increase in malignancy rates. To assess the continued impact of the pandemic on cytological practices around the world, they undertook a second follow-up worldwide survey collecting data from the post-lockdown period (2020). METHODS: Participants were asked to provide data regarding their cytopathology activity during the first 12 weeks of their respective national post-lockdown period (2020), which ranged from April 4 to October 31. Differences between the post-lockdown period and the corresponding 2019 period were evaluated, and the authors specifically focused on rates of malignant diagnoses. RESULTS: A total of 29 respondents from 17 countries worldwide joined the survey. Overall, a lower number of cytological specimens (n = 236,352) were processed in comparison with the same period in 2019 (n = 321,466) for a relative reduction of 26.5%. The overall malignancy rate showed a statistically significant increase (12,442 [5.26%] vs 12,882 [4.01%]; P < .001) during the same time period. Similar results were obtained if both malignancy and suspicious for malignancy rates were considered together (15,759 [6.58%] vs 16,011 [4.98%]; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: The data showed a persistent reduction in the cytological specimen volume during the post-lockdown period (2020). However, the relative increase in the cytological workload in the late part of the post-lockdown is a promising finding of a slow return to normality.

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Cancer Cytopathol

DOI

EISSN

1934-6638

Publication Date

May 2022

Volume

130

Issue

5

Start / End Page

344 / 351

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Pandemics
  • Neoplasms
  • Humans
  • Communicable Disease Control
  • COVID-19
  • 3211 Oncology and carcinogenesis
  • 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis
  • 1108 Medical Microbiology
  • 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology
 

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Vigliar, E., Pisapia, P., Dello Iacovo, F., Alcaraz-Mateos, E., Alì, G., Ali, S. Z., … Troncone, G. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study. Cancer Cytopathol, 130(5), 344–351. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncy.22547
Vigliar, Elena, Pasquale Pisapia, Filippo Dello Iacovo, Eduardo Alcaraz-Mateos, Greta Alì, Syed Z. Ali, Zubair W. Baloch, et al. “COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study.Cancer Cytopathol 130, no. 5 (May 2022): 344–51. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncy.22547.
Vigliar E, Pisapia P, Dello Iacovo F, Alcaraz-Mateos E, Alì G, Ali SZ, et al. COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study. Cancer Cytopathol. 2022 May;130(5):344–51.
Vigliar, Elena, et al. “COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study.Cancer Cytopathol, vol. 130, no. 5, May 2022, pp. 344–51. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/cncy.22547.
Vigliar E, Pisapia P, Dello Iacovo F, Alcaraz-Mateos E, Alì G, Ali SZ, Baloch ZW, Bellevicine C, Bongiovanni M, Botsun P, Bruzzese D, Bubendorf L, Büttner R, Canberk S, Capitanio A, Casadio C, Cazacu E, Cochand-Priollet B, D’Amuri A, Davis K, Eloy C, Engels M, Fadda G, Fontanini G, Fulciniti F, Hofman P, Iaccarino A, Ieni A, Jiang XS, Kakudo K, Kern I, Kholova I, Linton McDermott KM, Liu C, Lobo A, Lozano MD, Malapelle U, Maleki Z, Michelow P, Mikula MW, Musayev J, Özgün G, Oznur M, Peiró Marqués FM, Poller D, Pyzlak M, Robinson B, Rossi ED, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Saieg M, Savic Prince S, Schmitt FC, Seguí Iváñez FJ, Štoos-Veić T, Sulaieva O, Sweeney BJ, Tuccari G, van Velthuysen M-L, VanderLaan PA, Vielh P, Viola P, Voorham QJM, Weynand B, Zeppa P, Faquin WC, Pitman MB, Troncone G. COVID-19 pandemic impact on cytopathology practice in the post-lockdown period: An international, multicenter study. Cancer Cytopathol. 2022 May;130(5):344–351.
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Published In

Cancer Cytopathol

DOI

EISSN

1934-6638

Publication Date

May 2022

Volume

130

Issue

5

Start / End Page

344 / 351

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Pandemics
  • Neoplasms
  • Humans
  • Communicable Disease Control
  • COVID-19
  • 3211 Oncology and carcinogenesis
  • 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis
  • 1108 Medical Microbiology
  • 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology