Rectal cancer presentation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Are decreasing screening rates leading to an increase in acute presentations?

• Tia S. Sutton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tia S. Sutton, Scarlett Hao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Scarlett Hao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tia S. Sutton, Scarlett Hao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Mizuki Suzuki,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Aimei Chua,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Anna Lisa Ciarrocca,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Michael D. Honaker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: honakerm21@ecu.edu

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4574-2094

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