By splitting between surgical and non-surgical treatments, surgery-related time-to-treatment presented an increasing trend over the study period, with significant changes in four cCPs attributable to breast, thyroid, prostate and colorectal cCPs ( Figure 1C1 ).
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Impact of COVID-19 on cancer care pathways in a comprehensive cancer center in northern Italy.
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Changes in this indicator relative to ovarian cCP reveal a negative trend as they show increased time between diagnosis and multidisciplinary case discussion in two of three comparisons. cCP multidisciplinary team members established the absence of clinical relevance with regard to such negative changes, as the indicator has always been maintained within the established standard set by the cCP team.
In two out of ten cCPs, including ovarian and melanoma cCPs, we observed the opposite trend, namely a peak relative to 2020 followed by a decreasing trend in 2021.