Additional challenges faced by cancer patients in Gaza due to COVID-19

Cancer patients in conflict settings experience significant barriers in accessing chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as palliative care and psychosocial support. Now they face an additional possible risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus and the indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Autores principales: AlWaheidi, Shaymaa, Sullivan, Richard, Davies, Elizabeth A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7176064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32346394
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed100
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description Cancer patients in conflict settings experience significant barriers in accessing chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as palliative care and psychosocial support. Now they face an additional possible risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus and the indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on movement restrictions and their access to care. In this commentary, we highlight that despite the low COVID-19 burden in conflict settings like Gaza, COVID-19 could lead to further inequity in cancer care and poorer outcomes for Palestinians with cancer. This is due to the pre-existing shortage in cancer resources as well as the lack of context-specific guidelines to prepare for COVID-19 in war-torn settings.
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spelling pubmed-71760642020-04-28 Additional challenges faced by cancer patients in Gaza due to COVID-19 AlWaheidi, Shaymaa Sullivan, Richard Davies, Elizabeth A Ecancermedicalscience Editorial Cancer patients in conflict settings experience significant barriers in accessing chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as palliative care and psychosocial support. Now they face an additional possible risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus and the indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on movement restrictions and their access to care. In this commentary, we highlight that despite the low COVID-19 burden in conflict settings like Gaza, COVID-19 could lead to further inequity in cancer care and poorer outcomes for Palestinians with cancer. This is due to the pre-existing shortage in cancer resources as well as the lack of context-specific guidelines to prepare for COVID-19 in war-torn settings. Cancer Intelligence 2020-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7176064/ /pubmed/32346394 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed100 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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