The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on oncological surgery

The COVID-19 global pandemic is changing the practice of oncologic surgery. Accustomed to fighting cancer with all available means, surgeons are now being asked to delay treatment or make use of alternate strategies to conserve resources. Telemedicine is being widely employed. We present our thought...

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Autores principales: Kling, Sarah M, Philp, Matthew M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467751
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa157
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description The COVID-19 global pandemic is changing the practice of oncologic surgery. Accustomed to fighting cancer with all available means, surgeons are now being asked to delay treatment or make use of alternate strategies to conserve resources. Telemedicine is being widely employed. We present our thoughts on this topic and where we might be in the next several months.
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spelling pubmed-72438272020-05-27 The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on oncological surgery Kling, Sarah M Philp, Matthew M J Surg Case Rep Leading Article (Invited) The COVID-19 global pandemic is changing the practice of oncologic surgery. Accustomed to fighting cancer with all available means, surgeons are now being asked to delay treatment or make use of alternate strategies to conserve resources. Telemedicine is being widely employed. We present our thoughts on this topic and where we might be in the next several months. Oxford University Press 2020-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7243827/ /pubmed/32467751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa157 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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