Corticosteroids for Urological Cancer Care During Coronavirus Disease 2019. Treat or Not to Treat?

The current World Health Organization guidance is not to start corticosteroids, but there is no robust evidence of risk in patients with cancer and coronavirus disease 2019. A risk-benefit analysis should be performed for each patient on the use of steroids in cancer care.

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Autores principales: Waterhouse, Jasmin V., Hull, James H., Linch, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32349935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.04.027
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spelling pubmed-71726512020-04-22 Corticosteroids for Urological Cancer Care During Coronavirus Disease 2019. Treat or Not to Treat? Waterhouse, Jasmin V. Hull, James H. Linch, Mark Eur Urol Article The current World Health Organization guidance is not to start corticosteroids, but there is no robust evidence of risk in patients with cancer and coronavirus disease 2019. A risk-benefit analysis should be performed for each patient on the use of steroids in cancer care. European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-07 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7172651/ /pubmed/32349935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.04.027 Text en © 2020 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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