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Mortality trends for colorectal cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US

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Mattiuzzi Camilla¹,Lippi Giuseppe²

Affiliation:

1. Rovereto Hospital, Provincial Agency for Social and Sanitary Services (APSS)

2. University of Verona

Abstract

It can be assumed that a reduction in patient access to colorectal cancer screening and early management during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could have generated a negative impact on subsequent diagnoses and survival probabilities. We report here the recent statistics on colorectal cancer-related deaths in the US. We searched the CDC online database WONDER database, which reports mortality data for the entire country, using specific ICD-10 codes for colorectal cancer (from C18 to C20). The age-adjusted death rate ×100,000 for colorectal cancer displayed a gradual decrease from 2018 (13.06) to 2019 (12.76) and 2020 (12.55), but then reversed in 2021, when the age-adjusted death rate increased to 12.94, decreasing to 12.58 in 2022 and increasing again to 12.75 in 2023. The results of our analysis suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has likely had a negative impact on early mortality from colorectal cancer, as shown by the significant increase in the age-adjusted death rate recorded in 2021.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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5. Legend to Fig. 1. Mortality for colorectal cancer in the US during the period 2018–2023, as retrievable from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER online database. Data are expressed as age-adjusted death rate ×100,000.