Preoperative Screening for COVID-19 and Strict COVID Cancer Protocol Helps to Reduce Postoperative Infection, Mortality and Morbidity in Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery. A Comparative Study
Preoperative Screening for COVID-19 and Strict COVID Cancer Protocol Helps to Reduce Postoperative Infection, Mortality and Morbidity in Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery. A Comparative Study
The impact of cancer surgery during covid epidemic is not clear. The published reports show contradictory findings that extend from no change in mortality to increased mortality, further no data on exposure and outcome of health care worker is available. This study is designed to address the above questions
This is a retrospective study from the prospectively collected data that is extracted from the electronic database of Department of Surgical Oncology, IMS, BHU The data is inform of two cohorts one extending from April 2019-April 2020 and other from May 2020 to May 2021 i.e. pre covid and during covid pandemic
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