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    Ferro, Matteo; Del Giudice, Francesco; Carrieri, Giuseppe; Busetto, Gian Maria; Cormio, Luigi; Hurle, Rodolfo; Contieri, Roberto; Arcaniolo, Davide; Sciarra, Alessandro; Maggi, Martina; Porpiglia, Francesco; Manfredi, Matteo; Fiori, Cristian; Antonelli, Alessandro; Tafuri, Alessandro; Bove, Pierluigi; Terrone, Carlo; Borghesi, Marco; Costantini, Elisabetta; Iliano, Ester; Montanari, Emanuele; Boeri, Luca; Russo, Giorgio Ivan; Madonia, Massimo; Tedde, Alessandro; Veccia, Alessandro; Simeone, Claudio; Liguori, Giovanni; Trombetta, Carlo; Brunocilla, Eugenio; Schiavina, Riccardo; Dal Moro, Fabrizio; Racioppi, Marco; Vartolomei, Mihai Dorin; Longo, Nicola; Spirito, Lorenzo; Crocetto, Felice; Cantiello, Francesco; Damiano, Rocco; Di Stasi, Savino M.; Marchioni, Michele; Schips, Luigi; Parma, Paolo; Carmignani, Luca; Conti, Andrea; Soria, Francesco; Gontero, Paolo; Barone, Biagio; Deho, Federico; Zaffuto, Emanuele; Papalia, Rocco; Scarpa, Roberto M.; Pagliarulo, Vincenzo; Lucarelli, Giuseppe; Ditonno, Pasquale; Botticelli, Francesco Maria Gerardo; Musi, Gennaro; Catellani, Michele; de Cobelli, Ottavio

    Cancers, 10/2021, Letnik: 13, Številka: 21
    Journal Article

    Background: To investigate the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on the diagnosis and treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed using an Italian multi-institutional database of TURBT patients with high-risk urothelial NMIBC between January 2019 and February 2021, followed by Re-TURBT and/or adjuvant intravesical BCG. Results: A total of 2591 patients from 27 institutions with primary TURBT were included. Of these, 1534 (59.2%) and 1056 (40.8%) underwent TURBT before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, respectively. Time between diagnosis and TURBT was significantly longer during the COVID-19 period (65 vs. 52 days, p = 0.002). One thousand and sixty-six patients (41.1%) received Re-TURBT, 604 (56.7%) during the pre-COVID-19. The median time to secondary resection was significantly longer during the COVID-19 period (55 vs. 48 days, p < 0.0001). A total of 977 patients underwent adjuvant intravesical therapy after primary or secondary resection, with a similar distribution across the two groups (n = 453, 86% vs. n = 388, 86.2%). However, the proportion of the patients who underwent maintenance significantly differed (79.5% vs. 60.4%, p < 0.0001). Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unprecedented challenge to our health system. Our study did not show significant differences in TURBT quality. However, a delay in treatment schedule and disease management was observed. Investigation of the oncological impacts of those differences should be advocated.