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Blache G, El Hajj H, Jauffret C, Houvenaeghel G, Sabiani L, Barrou J, Masquin I, Le Saout J, Mokart D, Faucher M, Lambaudie E. Care as Usual: An Acceptable Strategy to Apply During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a French Tertiary Gynecologic Oncology Department. Front Oncol 2021; 11:653009. [PMID: 33968755 PMCID: PMC8097084 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.653009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
We describe and analyze a “care as usual” strategy of a French Comprehensive Cancer Center during the COVID-19 pandemic to manage surgical patients with gynecological cancer. We conducted a retrospective analysis evaluating the surgical activity in our gynecologic oncology department between January 21 and May 12, 2020. We compared the surgical activity and surgical and oncologic outcomes during the pre-lockdown period and the pandemic period. The main objective was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical activity. The secondary objectives were to analyze the surgical and the oncologic outcomes. We compared the surgical activity during the 8 weeks after the national lockdown (85 procedures) to the surgical activity in the 8 weeks preceding the lockdown (127 procedures). We observed a 33% decrease in activity between the two periods. The clinical and epidemiologic characteristics were similar between the two periods. There were no differences between the surgical approaches (p = 0.592), the surgical complexity (p = 0.323), the length of stay (p = 0.85), and even for the complex procedure (p = 0.96) and the perioperative (p = 0.791) and postoperative complication rates (p = 0.102). We observed a significant decrease in the time of return to intended oncological treatment (RIOT) during the lockdown period with an average of 31.9 days compared to 46.9 days in the pre-lockdown period (p = 0.003). During the COVID-19 pandemic, “care as usual” represents an acceptable strategy without impairing the oncologic outcome in a Comprehensive Cancer Center with a patient-centered clinical pathway for gynecologic oncologic surgical patients.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guillaume Blache
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Camille Jauffret
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Gilles Houvenaeghel
- Department of surgical oncology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes and CRCM, CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
| | - Laura Sabiani
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Julien Barrou
- Department of surgical oncology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes and CRCM, CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
| | - Isabelle Masquin
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Jérémy Le Saout
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Djamel Mokart
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Marion Faucher
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Paoli Calmettes Institute, Marseille, France
| | - Eric Lambaudie
- Department of surgical oncology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes and CRCM, CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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