Cancer care in the time of COVID-19—a perspective from Pakistan

Across much of the world, cancer care has been sidelined to a variable degree by the global effort against the coronavirus pandemic. This paper discusses the impact of coronavirus infection on cancer diagnosis and treatment in two leading cancer centres in Pakistan. It also describes the effect that...

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Autor principal: Yusuf, Aasim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32346392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1026
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spelling pubmed-71760622020-04-28 Cancer care in the time of COVID-19—a perspective from Pakistan Yusuf, Aasim Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication Across much of the world, cancer care has been sidelined to a variable degree by the global effort against the coronavirus pandemic. This paper discusses the impact of coronavirus infection on cancer diagnosis and treatment in two leading cancer centres in Pakistan. It also describes the effect that preparations for the expected surge in cases in Pakistan over the next few weeks have had on cancer care. There is an urgent need to evaluate the effect of delays in diagnosis and treatment on cancer stage and treatment, and to decide how to minimise these during likely future cycles of lockdown over the coming months and years. Cancer Intelligence 2020-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7176062/ /pubmed/32346392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1026 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cancer care in the time of COVID-19—a perspective from Pakistan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176062/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1026
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