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Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on gastric and colorectal cancer surgeries: a multicenter epidemiologic study from the Kinki region of Japan

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The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affected cancer surgeries and advanced cancer diagnoses; however, the trends in patient characteristics in medical institutions during this time, and the surgical approaches used are unclear. We investigated the impact of the pandemic on gastric and colorectal cancer surgeries in the Kinki region of Japan. We grouped 1688 gastric and 3493 colorectal cancer surgeries into three periods: “pre-pandemic” (April 2019–March 2020), “pandemic 1” (April 2020–March 2021), and “pandemic 2” (April 2021–September 2021), to investigate changes in the number of surgeries, patient characteristics, surgical approaches, and cancer progression after surgery. Gastric and colorectal cancer surgeries decreased from the pre-pandemic levels, by 20% and 4%, respectively, in pandemic 1, and by 31% and 19%, respectively, in pandemic 2. This decrease had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels by September, 2021. Patient characteristics, surgical approaches, and cancer progression of gastric and colorectal surgeries did not change remarkably as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

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This study was supported by the HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, GENERAL FOUNDATION.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

    Shunpei Jikihara, Nobuaki Hoshino, Koya Hida, Yoshiro Itatani, Shigeo Hisamori, Shigeru Tsunoda & Kazutaka Obama

  2. Department of Surgery, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Osaka, Japan

    Susumu Inamoto

  3. Department of Gastroenterological Surgery and Oncology, Kitano Hospital Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

    Eiji Tanaka

  4. Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto, Japan

    Ryo Matsusue

  5. Department of Surgery, Kyoto Katsura Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

    Shinya Hamasu

  6. Department of Surgery, Kyoto City Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

    Koichi Matsuo

  7. Department of Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

    Hiroki Hashida

  8. Department of Surgery, Kobe City Nishi-Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan

    Tetsuya Shiota

  9. Department of Surgery, Shiga General Hospital, Moriyama, Japan

    Masahiro Yamada

  10. Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan

    Ryo Matsusue

  11. Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center, Wakayama, Japan

    Yoshito Yamashita

  12. Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Japan

    Yuya Nakamura

  13. Department of Surgery, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Amagasaki, Japan

    Mami Yoshitomi

  14. Department of Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center West Hospital, Kobe, Japan

    Teppei Murakami

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Jikihara, S., Hoshino, N., Hida, K. et al. Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on gastric and colorectal cancer surgeries: a multicenter epidemiologic study from the Kinki region of Japan. Surg Today 54, 86–89 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-023-02734-5

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