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Year 2022, Volume: 44 Issue: 3, 288 - 295, 01.10.2022

Serkan Çelikgün , Tülay Koç , Reyhan Uçku

https://doi.org/10.7197/cmj.1171410

Abstract

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Cancer Incidence During The Covid-19 Pandemic In A Middle Anatolian City In Turkey

Year 2022, Volume: 44 Issue: 3, 288 - 295, 01.10.2022

Serkan Çelikgün , Tülay Koç , Reyhan Uçku

https://doi.org/10.7197/cmj.1171410

Abstract

Objective: Cancer-related deaths in all countries of the world, including our country, are the second leading cause of deaths after cardiovascular diseases. Covid-19 is a pandemic disease affecting many organs but primarily the lung. The aim of this study is to compare the cancer incidences in the pre-Covid-19 period and during Covid-19 pandemic period in Sivas province by means of age, gender and cancer type distribution of the patients.
Methods: The population of the study consists of the patients who applied to health institutions in Sivas between 01.11.2018 and 30.06.2021 and were diagnosed as cancer for the first time. The main variable of the study was cancer incidence. The time variable was the 16-monthtime period comprising before Covid-19 pandemic and during the pandemic period separately. In addition, patients diagnosed with cancer in both periods wasevaluated and compared according to age groups, gender and the type of cancer.
Results: In this study, the pre-pandemic period and the pandemic period were compared. It was determined that 1355 patients were diagnosed as cancer during the pre-pandemic period and 1720 patients during the pandemic period. The incidence, which was 212.1 per hundred thousand in the previous period, increased to 270.5 per hundred thousand during the 16-month pandemic period.
Conclusion: The incidence of cancer increased during the pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic period.  

Keywords

Incidence cancer Covid-19 epidemiology

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Primary Language English
Subjects Health Care Administration
Journal Section Surgical Science Research Articles
Authors

Serkan Çelikgün 0000-0003-1825-3113

Tülay Koç 0000-0001-8612-0238

Reyhan Uçku 0000-0003-0254-571X

Publication Date October 1, 2022
Acceptance Date September 28, 2022
Published in Issue Year 2022Volume: 44 Issue: 3

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AMA Çelikgün S, Koç T, Uçku R. Cancer Incidence During The Covid-19 Pandemic In A Middle Anatolian City In Turkey. CMJ. October 2022;44(3):288-295. doi:10.7197/cmj.1171410