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. 2022 Nov 28;48(6):e20220248.
doi: 10.36416/1806-3756/e20220248.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis of lung cancer in northeastern Brazil

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Iusta Caminha  1   2 , Fabio Távora  1   3 , Juliana Sousa  4 , Francisco Martins Neto  3 , Luciano Pamplona de Goes Cavalcanti  1   5
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis of lung cancer in northeastern Brazil

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Iusta Caminha et al. J Bras Pneumol. .
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Figure 1. Numbers of surgical pathology reports issued by pathologists at the Hospital de Messejana before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their relationship with the total numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the state of Ceará, Brazil. In A, surgical pathology reports issued between 2015 and 2021. Each dot represents the number of reports issued each month. There was a significant reduction in the numbers of reports issued in 2020 and 2021 in comparison with those issued in the 2015-2019 period (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between the numbers of reports issued in 2020 and 2021. In B and C, linear relationship of the numbers of surgical pathology reports issued by pathologists at the Hospital de Messejana with the numbers of COVID-19 cases (B) and deaths (C) occurring between January of 2020 and December of 2021. Each dot represents one month in the analyzed period.
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