Background: The impact of coronavirus disease-19 on the management of multiple myeloma (MM) has been recognized.However, the real effect on clinical outcomes remains poorly understood.Objective: We describe a local experience of the management of MM patients and report Managing Low Back Pain in the Primary Care Setting: The Know-Do Gap their outcomes during the current pandemic.Methods: All consecutive symptomatic MM patients seen at our center since 03/20 were evaluated.
Results: A cohort of 156 patients diagnosed from 01/19 to 12/20 was analyzed to interrogate differences in presentation patterns.A total of 553 MM patients were seen and/or treated at Tom Baker Cancer Center in the year of 2020.From those, 47.1% (n = 261) were tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Sixteen patients tested positive and data are presented.In addition, a decrease of 21.7% in the rate of new smoldering MM/MM diagnosis was observed in 2020 as compared to 2019.Further, an increase in deaths was also observed in 2020.
Conclusions: Our study confirms an increase lethality for Occurrence of geohelminths in the soil of public squares in Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazilian Western Amazon MM patients infected with SARS-CoV-2.A balance between safety and need for cancer control should be emphasized.