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Impact of COVID‐19 on the incidence of localized and metastatic prostate cancer among White and Black Veterans

Authors :
Kyung Min Lee
Alex K. Bryant
Patrick Alba
Tori Anglin
Brian Robison
Brent S. Rose
Julie A. Lynch
Source :
Cancer Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 3727-3730 (2023)
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Wiley, 2023.

Abstract

Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) screening and prostate biopsy procedures. We sought to determine whether delayed screening and diagnostic workup of prostate cancer (PCa) was associated with increased subsequent rates of incident PCa and advanced PCa and whether the rates differed by race. We analyzed data from the Veterans Health Administration to assess the changes in the rates of PSA screening, prostate biopsy procedure, incident PCa, PCa with high‐grade Gleason score, and incident metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) before and after January 2020. While the late pandemic mPCa rate among White Veterans was comparable to the pre‐pandemic rate (5.4 pre‐pandemic vs 5.2 late‐pandemic, p = 0.67), we observed a significant increase in incident mPCa cases among Black Veterans in the late pandemic period (8.1 pre‐pandemic vs 11.3 late‐pandemic, p

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20457634
Volume :
12
Issue :
3
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Cancer Medicine
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.f6433a9d3ab04c36bfa47130122a3a51
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.5151