What is Elective Oncologic Surgery in the Time of COVID-19? A Literature Review of the Impact of Surgical Delays on Outcomes in Patients with Cancer
What is Elective Oncologic Surgery in the Time of COVID-19? A Literature Review of the Impact of Surgical Delays on Outcomes in Patients with Cancer
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Purpose and Significance of Study: This is a comprehensive review of the literature on the association of surgical delays with outcomes such as overall survival for breast cancer (both invasive and ductal carcinoma in situ), gastrointestinal cancers (including gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, hepatocellular cancer, and colorectal cancer), melanoma, soft tissue sarcomas, genitourinary cancers (prostate, renal and bladder cancers), thyroid cancer, and ovarian cancer. This article is expected to help drive evidence-based clinical decisions on delays of oncologic surgery at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic when many medical centers throughout the world have paused elective surgeries to control the disease spread and for the conservation of resources.
Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Clinical Oncology and Research.
The manuscript is well-written. Some very minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof) are listed below –
· The most common issue was that throughout the text, in numerous places, “-” and “;” were replaced with “I”, “<” and “S”.
· Omission of articles, e.g., “the” before “timing” in the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph of Introduction, “a” before “valid” in the last sentence of the 3rd paragraph of Introduction, and so on.
· Omission of “,”, e.g., after “2020” and “pandemic” in the 3rd sentence of the 1st paragraph of the Introduction, and so on.
· Words like “low-risk”, “high-risk”, “intermediate-risk”, “high-grade”, “early-stage”, “advanced-stage”, “progression-free”, “disease-free”, etc. must be hyphenated in all places to maintain consistency.
· In the last sentence of the 3rd paragraph of the Discussion, “devastating” is misspelled.
· In the 2nd sentence of the last paragraph of the Conclusion, “prioritizing” must be replaced with “deciding”.
Stephen J. Savage
Aaron P. Lesher
Andrea Abbott
Antonio Giordano
Biqi Zhang
David A. Mahvi
David M. Mahvi
Denise Garcia
Denise Carneiro-Pla
E. Ramsay Camp
Julie B. Siegel
Mahsa Javid
Nancy Klauber DeMore
Sara Giordano
Whitney Graybill
Author Info
Corresponding Author
Nancy Klauber DeMore
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Article Info
Article Type
Review Article
Publication history
Received: Fri 15, May 2020
Accepted: Mon 01, Jun 2020
Published: Fri 26, Jun 2020
Copyright
© 2023 Nancy Klauber DeMore. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2020.06.05