Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences

Document Type : Letter(s) to the Editor

Author

Worker’s Care and Digital Health Lab, Korea University of Technology and Education (KOREA TECH), Cheonan 31253, South Korea

10.30476/ijms.2026.110500.4617

Abstract

The retrospective study by Rezvani and others1 provides a critical and sobering analysis of the pandemic’s collateral damage on cancer care.

Highlights

Haewon Byeon (Google Scholar)

Keywords

  1. Rezvani A, Heydarzadeh R, Golchin Vafa R, Sohrabizadeh S, Rahmani MH, Zangouri V, et al. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Breast Cancer, Diagnostic Delays and Disease Progression: A Retrospective Study. Iran J Med Sci. 2026;51:60-9. doi: 10.30476/ijms.2025.105608.3951. PubMed PMID: 41625350; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12858447.
  2. Kim YR, Chung SW, Kim MJ, Choi WM, Choi J, Lee D, et al. Limited Generalizability of Retrospective Single-Center Co-hort Study in Comparison to Multicenter Cohort Study on Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. J Hepatocell Carci-noma. 2024;11:1235-49. doi: 10.2147/jhc.s456093. PubMed PMID: 38974017; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11225716.