PANDEMIC IMPACT ON BREAST CANCER SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS IN BRAZIL

Authors

  • João Vítor Santana Mendes UNESC
  • Gabriela Ferreira Gomide
  • Laura Ceolin de Jesus
  • Maria Eduarda Scheeren Xavier
  • Paulo Otávio Hilário Pinter
  • Maria Heloísa Perdoná da Silveira
  • Maria Laura Zanette Naspolini
  • Taynara Brasil de Freitas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18616/inova.v14i2.7810

Abstract

ABSTRACT:

The pandemic led to the need for social isolation and health services adaptation, which led to a important delay on screening tests for the health of the population. For patients with premalignant or early stages malignant lesions, this delay significantly compromises theirs prognosis. The study’s objective is to quantify the pandemic impact on the mammograms number during 2020. It is a descriptive observational study with secondary data collection from DATASUS regarding the mammograms number performed in patients targeted for screening in 2019 and 2020, and regarding the diagnoses number of  breast cancer in the same period. In 2019, 1,966,565 mammograms were performed in Brazil on women, a 39.37% drop in the number of mammograms performed in 2020 (1,192,274 in total). The number of diagnoses also decreased worryingly from 25,510 to 23,144 in 2020. Due to the social isolation established as a way to reduce the chances of contagion by the virus, the pandemic had a negative impact on the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer. mom is in the country.

KEYWORDS: mammography, neoplasm, breast, prevention, COVID-19.

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Published

2023-02-14