ASO Author Reflections: Changes in Breast Cancer Care and Patient Perception During the Initial Wave of COVID-19

Impact and Future Changes to Breast Cancer Care Due to Covid-19

“…Patients were also given a survey Generalized Anxiety Disorder two-item (GAD-2) questionnaire which revealed that 31.2% of patients screened positive for anxiety and depression. Interestingly this was not statistically different between women who had a change in care due to COVID-19 or rates of GAD-2 positivity for women with breast cancer outside of the COVID-19 pandemic [7][8]. From multiple studies on both the From these studies we see that there were changes implemented in the care of breast cancer patients.…”

“…Moving forward this speaks to the importance of the breast cancer team in communicating with the patient. Although cancer care my change patients are ready to embrace this [4,[6][7][8].…”

“…This was implemented during the COVID pandemic due to difficulty in enabling many breast cancer patients to proceed to the operating room with shortages of staff and personal protective equipment [4,[6][7][8]. Many assessments are underway to evaluate breast cancer outcomes for this cohort.…”