TY - JOUR T1 - Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Cancer AU - Şenel, Tuğba AU - Ayyıldız, Talat PY - 2022 DA - October Y2 - 2022 JF - Deneysel ve Klinik Tıp Dergisi JO - J. Exp. Clin. Med. PB - Ondokuz Mayıs University WT - DergiPark SN - 1309-4483 SP - 1013 EP - 1017 VL - 39 IS - 4 LA - en AB - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a major impact every aspect of life all over the world with severe consequences. Demonstration of its effects in the field of healthcare is very important for countries to make future plans. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the number of gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures and resulting cancer detection rate at our center along with clinicopathological characteristics of the patients by comparing the pandemic period with the same time intervals of previous years. Ultimately, the study intended to better understand how pandemic changed attitudes of patients towards health, how individuals and healthcare centers behaved in response to such an extraordinary situation and whether they avoided seeking medical care. This was a retrospective and single-center study. The 6-month period from March 11 to September 11, 2020 (lockdown period) was compared with the same months of 2018 and 2019 (pre-pandemic period) in terms of the number of endoscopic procedures performed at our gastroenterology unit, malignancy detection rate and clinicopathological characteristics of patients. The data were analyzed using the SPSS Statistics 22.0 software package.A 33% reduction was observed in the number of endoscopic procedures during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic years and the difference was significant (p KW - COVID-19 KW - gastrointestinal endoscopy KW - gastrointestinal cancer KW - tumor stages KW - tumor locations CR - Referans1. 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