COVID-19对美国癌症发病率的影响
Ramalingam Shanmugam1, Larry Fulton2, C Scott Kruse1
1Texas State University, School of Health Administration, Encino Hall, Room 250A, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX, 78666, USA.
Heliyon
|April 11, 2024
概括
在COVID-19大流行期间,癌症发病率模式发生了变化. 分析显示,2020年发生了重大变化,流行后的癌症载体角度有显著差异.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 癌症发病率数据分析对于了解疾病趋势至关重要.
- COVID-19 疫情可能影响了癌症诊断和报告.
- 评估癌症数据中的时间变化需要强大的分析方法.
研究的目的:
- 分析来自美国癌症协会的癌症发病率数据,跨越流行病前,流行病期间和流行病后的时代.
- 识别和量化癌症发病率模式的变化.
- 调查COVID-19大流行对癌症趋势的影响.
主要方法:
- 将癌症发病率数据分为COVID-19前 (2017-2018),COVID-19期间 (2019-2021) 和COVID-19后 (2022-2023) 的时间段.
- 将主要成分分析 (PCA) 应用于癌症发病率载体.
- 计算了矢量之间的角度,并纳入了逻辑正常概率概念.
主要成果:
- 癌症发病率在流行病前,流行病期间和流行病后的各个时代都出现了变化.
- 2020年癌症发病率发生显著变化,这是大流行病的高峰期.
- 流行后的角度向量比流行前减少了72%,比流行期间减少了28%.
- 宫癌在2019年和2021年表现出统计上的异常.
结论:
- COVID-19大流行时代与癌症发病率模式的动态转变有关.
- 癌症载体运动变化的幅度因癌症类型而异.
- 研究结果表明,需要进一步研究流行病对癌症流行病学的影响.
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