Objective: the pre-hospital management of cancers is little known in General Medicine.The first lockdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of healthfacilities. Investigators were interested in the diagnosis and care pathway of digestivecancers in post-confinement in General Medicine in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Method: patient records discussed in Digestive Oncology CPR of Bordeaux University
Hospital for the first time from June 1 to August 31, 2020 and over the same period in
2019 were included. A questionnaire on the dates of the first symptoms, first
consultation with the general practitioner, imaging examination and access to the
specialist was sent to the general practitioner. The primary outcome was time from onset
to date of first MDT.
Inclusion Criteria:
- residing in New Aquitaine and
- whose general practitioner practiced in New Aquitaine
- malignant tumors of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, recto-sigmoid
junction, rectum, anus and anal canal, liver and intrahepatic bile ducts,
extrahepatic bile ducts, gallbladder and pancreas.
- to have had at least one consultation or hospitalization in the digestive pole of
the Bordeaux University Hospital within 6 months after the MDT.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients under 18 years of age,
- who had already had a MDT for this cancer,
- whose date of first MDT was outside the inclusion dates,
- whose new cancer was a digestive metastasis of a primary of another location,
- who did not have French health insurance
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Bordeaux 3031582, France
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