학술논문
Increase in American Joint Committee on Cancer Stage at Diagnosis for Patients with Skin Cancers after the COVID-19 Lockdown.
Document Type
Article
Source
Subject
*SKIN cancer
*CANCER patients
*CANCER diagnosis
*TUMOR classification
*COVID-19
*STAY-at-home orders
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Language
ISSN
0001-5555
Abstract
The article presents a study to assess whether the severity of newly diagnosed skin cancers increased after the COVID-19 lockdown in France. It mentions that the study included all adult patients newly diagnosed with skin melanoma or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. It informs that patients' baseline characteristics were extracted from electronic health records: sex, age at diagnosis, histological subtype, Breslow thickness and ulceration status of melanomas.