https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/2708a27b33e6313fd3527947e7bad6ee.pdf 13791a8c9fb2e75ecb1cc2d6bdfd1686 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Effect of COVID-19 Epidemic on Delay of Diagnosis and Treatment Path for Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hu C, Yang Y, Shen C Description An account of the resource Youqi Yang, Chunying Shen, Chaosu Hu Department of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Chaosu Hu No. 270, Dong’an Road, Shanghai, People’s Republic of ChinaTel Fax + 8602164175590Email hucsu62@yahoo.comIntroduction: 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks have been occurring in China and other countries in the world. To prevent further spread of the disease, restrictions of population flow from the government and measures to reduce virus transmission from hospitals may lead to the delay of diagnosis and treatment in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).Methods: All NPC patients with radiotherapy indications were included from 20 weekdays before (group A) and after (group B) January 31, 2020, when the institute began to take measures against COVID-19. The waiting intervals of each step and variation from the diagnosis and treatment path of NPC between two groups were compared.Results: Significant differences were found between the group A and group B in the median waiting days for pathological biopsy (5 vs 15, P=0.012), radiotherapy immobilization and simulation (3.5 vs 16.5, P< 0.001), validation of position and plan (20 vs 61, P< 0.001) and initiation of radiotherapy (28 vs 36, P=0.005). During the waiting period of radiotherapy, 32.4% of the NPC patients received an additional one cycle of chemotherapy to the original treatment strategy.Conclusion: The prevalence of COVID-19 caused delay in the diagnosis and treatment of NPC patients to a certain extent. Additional chemotherapy could be considered to counteract the effect of treatment delay. More specific measures should be taken to balance the risk of delayed diagnosis and treatment of NPC and infection of COVID-19.Keywords: COVID-19, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, radiotherapy   Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Radiotherapy, Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, COVID-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cancer Management and Research Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Dove Medical Press Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens