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Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 62. No. Supplement 2, 2023.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20471/acc.2023.62.s2.4

Trends in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Single-Institution Experience

Ivona Ćudina ; Zagreb-Centar Health Center, Zagreb, Croatia *
Marin Glavčić ; Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Pero Hrabač ; Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia; University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Stela Bulimbašić ; Department of Pathology and Cytology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Marijana Ćorić ; Department of Pathology and Cytology, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia; University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

* Corresponding author.

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the number of biopsy and surgical procedures
on prostate, as well as the number of newly diagnosed, histologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer
during the COVID-19 pandemic at Zagreb University Hospital Center (UHC). We retrospectively
collected and processed a total of 1344 histopathologic findings of the prostate at the Zagreb UHC. Our
results show that during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a statistically significant decrease in the
absolute number of biopsy and surgical procedures on prostate at Zagreb UHC, and so was the number
of newly diagnosed, histologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer. During the observed time of the
pandemic (March 19, 2020 to December 31, 2020), there was a 37.5% decrease in the absolute number
of newly diagnosed prostate cancer cases compared to the same period of the previous year (March 19,
2019 to December 31, 2019). To our knowledge, this is the first study of this kind that is based on the
number of prostate cancer diagnoses in Croatia. By observing the early period of the pandemic, our
results provide important guidelines for monitoring and understanding the long-term consequences of
the pandemic on the prostate cancer morbidity and mortality.

Keywords

COVID-19; Histopathologic findings; Pandemic; Prostate cancer

Hrčak ID:

308929

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/308929

Publication date:

31.7.2023.

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