Healthcare providers’ perspective of COVID-19 pandemic on cancer treatment, screening & early detection services in India

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Aprajita Kaushik, Centre for Chronic Disease Control; Steena Kuriakose, Centre for Chronic Disease Control; Aastha Aggarwal, Public Health Foundation of India; Ravi Kumar Mehrotra, Emory University; Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Emory University; Dorairaj Shridhar, Centre for Chronic Disease Control
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-05-01
• Publisher: Emory University Libraries
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2022 Indian Journal of Medical Research
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2185_21
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Indian Journal of Medical Research
• Volume: 155
• Issue: 5-6
• Start Page: 587
• End Page: 590
• Grant/Funding Information: None.
• Keywords: India; Humans; Health Personnel; Early Detection of Cancer; Neoplasms; COVID-19; Pandemics
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Public Health

Abstract

Globally, during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, various surveys have been conducted among cancer patients, survivors and healthcare providers aiming to evaluate the impact of the pandemic across the continuum of cancer care1,4. These surveys have largely highlighted the disruptions at the provider level due to reductions in service availability4. However, such data from India3,5 contributing to the third-highest cancer numbers in the world annually (1,324,413 estimated new cases in 2020) are sparse6.