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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health systems and economies. With ongoing and future challenges posed to the field due to the pandemic, re-examining research priorities has emerged as a concern. As part of a wider project aiming to examine research prio...

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Main Authors:	Fox, Louis, Beyer, Katharina, Rammant, Elke, Morcom, Esme, Van Hemelrijck, Mieke, Sullivan, Richard, Vanderpuye, Verna, Lombe, Dorothy, Tsunoda, Audrey Tieko, Kutluk, Tezer, Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala, Pramesh, Shanmugham C., Yusuf, Aasim, Booth, Christopher M., Shamieh, Omar, Siesling, Sabine, Mukherji, Deborah
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spelling	my.um.eprints.346012022-06-13T01:49:33Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/34601/ Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies Fox, Louis Beyer, Katharina Rammant, Elke Morcom, Esme Van Hemelrijck, Mieke Sullivan, Richard Vanderpuye, Verna Lombe, Dorothy Tsunoda, Audrey Tieko Kutluk, Tezer Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala Pramesh, Shanmugham C. Yusuf, Aasim Booth, Christopher M. Shamieh, Omar Siesling, Sabine Mukherji, Deborah R Medicine Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health systems and economies. With ongoing and future challenges posed to the field due to the pandemic, re-examining research priorities has emerged as a concern. As part of a wider project aiming to examine research priorities, here we aimed to qualitatively examine the documented impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers.Materials and Methods: We conducted a literature review with the aim of identifying non-peer-reviewed journalistic sources and institutional blog posts which qualitatively documented the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers. We searched on 12th January 2021 using the LexisNexis database and Google, using terms and filters to identify English-language media reports and blogs, containing references to both COVID-19 and cancer research. The targeted search returned 751 results, of which 215 articles met the inclusion criteria. These 215 articles were subjected to a conventional qualitative content analysis, to document the impacts of the pandemic on the field of cancer research.Results: Our analysis yielded a high plurality of qualitatively documented impacts, from which seven categories of direct impacts emerged: (1) COVID measures halting cancer research activity entirely; (2) COVID measures limiting cancer research activity; (3) forced adaptation of research protocols; (4) impacts on cancer diagnosis, cases, and services; (5) availability of resources for cancer research; (6) disruption to the private sector; and (7) disruption to supply chains. Three categories of consequences from these impacts also emerged: (1) potential changes to future research practice; (2) delays to the progression of the field; and (3) potential new areas of research interest.Discussion: The COVID-19 pandemic had extensive practical and economic effects on the field of cancer research in 2020 that were highly plural in nature. Appraisal of cancer research strategies in a post-COVID world should acknowledge the potential for substantial limitations (such as on financial resources, limited access to patients for research, decreased patient access to cancer care, staffing issues, administrative delays, or supply chain issues), exacerbated cancer disparities, advances in digital health, and new areas of research related to the intersection of cancer and COVID-19. Frontiers Media 2021-11-24 Article PeerReviewed Fox, Louis and Beyer, Katharina and Rammant, Elke and Morcom, Esme and Van Hemelrijck, Mieke and Sullivan, Richard and Vanderpuye, Verna and Lombe, Dorothy and Tsunoda, Audrey Tieko and Kutluk, Tezer and Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala and Pramesh, Shanmugham C. and Yusuf, Aasim and Booth, Christopher M. and Shamieh, Omar and Siesling, Sabine and Mukherji, Deborah (2021) Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies. Frontiers in Public Health, 9. ISSN 2296-2565, DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.741223 <https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.741223>. 10.3389/fpubh.2021.741223
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spellingShingle	R Medicine Fox, Louis Beyer, Katharina Rammant, Elke Morcom, Esme Van Hemelrijck, Mieke Sullivan, Richard Vanderpuye, Verna Lombe, Dorothy Tsunoda, Audrey Tieko Kutluk, Tezer Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala Pramesh, Shanmugham C. Yusuf, Aasim Booth, Christopher M. Shamieh, Omar Siesling, Sabine Mukherji, Deborah Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies
description	Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health systems and economies. With ongoing and future challenges posed to the field due to the pandemic, re-examining research priorities has emerged as a concern. As part of a wider project aiming to examine research priorities, here we aimed to qualitatively examine the documented impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers.Materials and Methods: We conducted a literature review with the aim of identifying non-peer-reviewed journalistic sources and institutional blog posts which qualitatively documented the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers. We searched on 12th January 2021 using the LexisNexis database and Google, using terms and filters to identify English-language media reports and blogs, containing references to both COVID-19 and cancer research. The targeted search returned 751 results, of which 215 articles met the inclusion criteria. These 215 articles were subjected to a conventional qualitative content analysis, to document the impacts of the pandemic on the field of cancer research.Results: Our analysis yielded a high plurality of qualitatively documented impacts, from which seven categories of direct impacts emerged: (1) COVID measures halting cancer research activity entirely; (2) COVID measures limiting cancer research activity; (3) forced adaptation of research protocols; (4) impacts on cancer diagnosis, cases, and services; (5) availability of resources for cancer research; (6) disruption to the private sector; and (7) disruption to supply chains. Three categories of consequences from these impacts also emerged: (1) potential changes to future research practice; (2) delays to the progression of the field; and (3) potential new areas of research interest.Discussion: The COVID-19 pandemic had extensive practical and economic effects on the field of cancer research in 2020 that were highly plural in nature. Appraisal of cancer research strategies in a post-COVID world should acknowledge the potential for substantial limitations (such as on financial resources, limited access to patients for research, decreased patient access to cancer care, staffing issues, administrative delays, or supply chain issues), exacerbated cancer disparities, advances in digital health, and new areas of research related to the intersection of cancer and COVID-19.
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author	Fox, Louis Beyer, Katharina Rammant, Elke Morcom, Esme Van Hemelrijck, Mieke Sullivan, Richard Vanderpuye, Verna Lombe, Dorothy Tsunoda, Audrey Tieko Kutluk, Tezer Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala Pramesh, Shanmugham C. Yusuf, Aasim Booth, Christopher M. Shamieh, Omar Siesling, Sabine Mukherji, Deborah
author_facet	Fox, Louis Beyer, Katharina Rammant, Elke Morcom, Esme Van Hemelrijck, Mieke Sullivan, Richard Vanderpuye, Verna Lombe, Dorothy Tsunoda, Audrey Tieko Kutluk, Tezer Bhoo-Pathy, Nirmala Pramesh, Shanmugham C. Yusuf, Aasim Booth, Christopher M. Shamieh, Omar Siesling, Sabine Mukherji, Deborah
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title	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies
title_short	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies
title_full	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies
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title_full_unstemmed	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer researchers in 2020: A qualitative study of events to inform mitigation strategies

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