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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description 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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spelling pubmed-72563362020-05-29 Cancer treatment during COVID-19 pandemic Jindal, Vishal Sahu, Kamal Kant Gaikazian, Susanna Siddiqui, Ahmad Daniyal Jaiyesimi, Ishmael Med Oncol Short Communication 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. Springer US 2020-05-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7256336/ /pubmed/32472216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12032-020-01382-w Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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