Cancer treatment during COVID-19 pandemic

Currently world is fighting with global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). At this time of uncertainty, oncologists are struggling to provide appropriate care to cancer patients. They have to weigh risk and benefit of giving cancer treatment vs chances of getting them infected with COV...

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Autores principales: Jindal, Vishal, Sahu, Kamal Kant, Gaikazian, Susanna, Siddiqui, Ahmad Daniyal, Jaiyesimi, Ishmael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7256336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32472216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12032-020-01382-w
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Sumario:Currently world is fighting with global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). At this time of uncertainty, oncologists are struggling to provide appropriate care to cancer patients. They have to weigh risk and benefit of giving cancer treatment vs chances of getting them infected with COVID-19. As cancer patients are immunocompromised and there are high chances of exposure during hospital visits and if they get infected, outcome can be fatal. So through the column of this article, we would like to provide basic guideline in management of cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic.

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