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cord-311342-523zrpbl	Shipe, Maren E.	Modeling the Impact of Delaying the Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer during COVID-19	2020-10-19		.txt	text/plain	3528	191	50	The purpose of this study was to compare the effect on 5-year overall survival of delayed surgical biopsy of a lung nodule suspicious for cancer with possible perioperative COVID-19 infection within an early phase infection environment. Five-year overall survival was chosen for the outcome in order to model the impact of cancer progression as well as potential long-term effects of perioperative COVID-19 infection. For the base case scenario, choosing immediate VATS resection of the suspicious lung nodule resulted in improved 5-year overall survival when compared to delayed VATS resection after three months to allow for COVID-19 prevalence to decrease (0.77 and 0.74, respectively). Proceeding with immediate VATS resection of a suspicious lung nodule during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a similar but slightly improved 5-year overall survival when compared to resection after a three-month delay in our base case scenario.	./cache/cord-311342-523zrpbl.txt	./txt/cord-311342-523zrpbl.txt