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. 2023 Nov 1;278(5):e960-e965.
doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003967. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

Are We Harming Cancer Patients by Delaying Their Cancer Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Kiran K Turaga  1 , Saket Girotra  2
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Are We Harming Cancer Patients by Delaying Their Cancer Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Kiran K Turaga et al. Ann Surg. .

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Adjusted Hazard Ratios by Delay in Definitive Surgery (weeks) for Surgery First Patients Used to Obtain Inflection Points. ∗source data and graphs for patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy are in the appendix.
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Time to Definitive Surgery from Diagnosis for Cancer in Patients Undergoing Surgery as the First Modality of Therapy. ∗Cancers are ordered based on the median overall survival along the Y axis.
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FIGURE 3
Time to Definitive Surgery from Diagnosis for Cancer in Patients Undergoing Surgery after Neoadjuvant Therapy. ∗Cancers are ordered based on the median overall survival along the Y axis.
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